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whale oil

whale oil noun: any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants (and also formerly as an illuminating oil).

whale oil: any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of...
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Noun

whale oil (countable and uncountable, plural whale oils)

  1. Any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants (and also formerly as an illuminating oil).

whale oil meaning in Tamil

whale oil in Tamil

திமிங்கில எண்ணெய்

Forms of whale oil

pluralwhale oils

Questions about whale oil

What does whale oil mean?
Whale oil means any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants (and also formerly as an illuminating oil).
What is whale oil in Tamil?
Whale oil in Tamil is திமிங்கில எண்ணெய். See Whale oil meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is whale oil?
Whale oil is a noun.
What is the plural of whale oil?
The plural of whale oil is whale oils.

Words near whale oil in the dictionary

  1. whale fisher
  2. whale fishers
  3. whale lice
  4. whale line
  5. whale louse
  6. whale oil
  7. whale oils
  8. whale on
  9. whale safari
  10. whale safaris
  11. whale shark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whale oil (page history and authors); whale 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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