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Vegetable tallow   /vˈɛdʒtəbəl tˈæloʊ/   Listen
Vegetable tallow

noun
1.
A waxy fat obtained from certain plants (e.g. bayberry) and used as tallow.





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"Vegetable tallow" Quotes from Famous Books



... foregoing list I must add, pipeclay, vegetable tallow, which might be useful in commerce, being of fine quality; and the ore, found in abundance round here, of which I can make nothing, but which I believe ...
— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel
... camp-stools. I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks. The river was alive with junks, some going in the same direction as ourselves, and others loaded with tea, charcoal, vegetable tallow, oil of various kinds, and gypsum, brought, most of them, from the far ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 • Various


Words linked to "Vegetable tallow" :   plant substance, plant material


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