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MARGARIN
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
Noun
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
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(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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