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olestras

olestras is the plural of olestra.

Meaning of olestra

Noun

olestra (countable and uncountable, plural olestras)

  1. A fat substitute (a glyceride of sucrose) that cannot be easily digested and therefore adds no fat, calories, or cholesterol to food products; also used as an industrial lubricant.
    • What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.1999, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Fight Club (motion picture), spoken by Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)

Questions about olestras

What is olestras the plural of?
Olestras is the plural of olestra.

Words near olestras in the dictionary

  1. Olesno
  2. Oleson
  3. Olesons
  4. Olessia
  5. olestra
  6. olestras
  7. Olesya
  8. olethreutid
  9. olethreutids
  10. olethreutine
  11. olethreutines

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