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palm oils

palm oils is the plural of palm oil.

Meaning of palm oil

Noun

palm oil (countable and uncountable, plural palm oils)

  1. An edible plant oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).
    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29
  2. (slang) Money given as a bribe.

Questions about palm oils

What is palm oils the plural of?
Palm oils is the plural of palm oil.

Words near palm oils in the dictionary

  1. palm muting
  2. palm nut
  3. palm nuts
  4. palm off
  5. palm oil
  6. palm oils
  7. palm out
  8. palm print
  9. palm prints
  10. palm reader
  11. palm readers

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