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sperm oil

sperm oil noun: whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.

sperm oil: whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale
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Noun

sperm oil (countable and uncountable, plural sperm oils)

  1. Whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.
    • Meronym: spermaceti
    Synonyms:
    sperm whale oil

sperm oil meaning in Tamil

sperm oil in Tamil

திமிங்கல எண்ணெய்

Synonyms of sperm oil

Forms of sperm oil

pluralsperm oils

Questions about sperm oil

What does sperm oil mean?
Sperm oil means whale oil that is extracted from a sperm whale.
What is sperm oil in Tamil?
Sperm oil in Tamil is திமிங்கல எண்ணெய். See Sperm oil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sperm oil?
Sperm oil is a noun.
What is the plural of sperm oil?
The plural of sperm oil is sperm oils.

Words near sperm oil in the dictionary

  1. sperm counts
  2. sperm donor
  3. sperm donors
  4. sperm morula
  5. sperm morulae
  6. sperm oil
  7. sperm oils
  8. sperm sac
  9. sperm sack
  10. sperm whale
  11. sperm whale oil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sperm oil (page history and authors); sperm oil (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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