OLEOMARGARINE

margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge

(noun) a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

oleomargarine (countable and uncountable, plural oleomargarines)

(dated) margarine

Source: Wiktionary

O`le*o*mar"ga*rine, n. Etym: [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.] [Written also oleomargarin.]

1. 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.

2. An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk.

Note: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition