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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