oleomargarine

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: o=le=o=mar=ga=rine

CIDE DICTIONARY

oleomargarine, n. [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.].

•  A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.  [1913 Webster]
•  An artificial butter made by emulsifying a fatty oil with more or less milk and water; it was formerly made predominantly from animal fats, but now is made predominantly or exclusively from vegetable oils, sometimes mixed with animal fats.  [1913 Webster]

  " Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

oleomargarine, n.
1 a fatty substance extracted from beef fat and often used in margarine.
2 US a margarine made from vegetable oils.