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vegetable shortening

vegetable shortening noun: a type of vegetable fat used in cooking as an alternative to butter or other animal fats.

Noun

vegetable shortening (countable and uncountable, plural vegetable shortenings)

  1. A type of vegetable fat used in cooking as an alternative to butter or other animal fats.

Forms of vegetable shortening

pluralvegetable shortenings

Questions about vegetable shortening

What does vegetable shortening mean?
Vegetable shortening means a type of vegetable fat used in cooking as an alternative to butter or other animal fats.
What part of speech is vegetable shortening?
Vegetable shortening is a noun.
What is the plural of vegetable shortening?
The plural of vegetable shortening is vegetable shortenings.

Words near vegetable shortening in the dictionary

  1. vegetable pear
  2. vegetable pears
  3. vegetable rennet
  4. vegetable rennets
  5. vegetable sheep
  6. vegetable shortening
  7. vegetable shortenings
  8. vegetable soup
  9. vegetable soups
  10. vegetable spaghetti
  11. vegetable sulfur

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