margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge
(noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
margarin, glycerol trimargarate
(noun) a glyceryl ester of margaric acid
Source: WordNet® 3.1
margarin (countable and uncountable, plural margarins)
Archaic form of margarine.
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"ga*rin, n. Etym: [Cf. F. margarine. See Margarite.] (Physiol. Chem.)
Definition: A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 November 2024
(noun) a person (usually but not necessarily a woman) who is thoroughly disliked; “she said her son thought Hillary was a bitch”
Decaffeinated coffee is not caffeine-free. Studies from the National Institute of Health (US) have shown that virtually all decaf coffee types contain caffeine. A 236-ml (8-oz) cup of decaf coffee contains up to 7 mg of caffeine, whereas a regular cup provided 70-140 mg.
