Definition of Madia oil

1. Noun. Used as a substitute for olive oil.

Generic synonyms: Oil, Vegetable Oil
Substance meronyms: Chile Tarweed, Madia Oil Plant, Madia Sativa, Melosa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Madia Oil

mademoiselles
maderise
maderised
maderises
maderize
maderized
maderizes
maderizing
madescent
madest
madge
madges
madhouse
madhouses
madia
madia oil (current term)
madia oil plant
madid
madidans
madindoline
madisterium
madjoun
madling
madlings
madly
madman
madmen
madnep
madness
madnesses

Literary usage of Madia oil

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1895)
"... density than olive oil, the sp. gr. being about 0.920 madia oil.—The plant from which this oil is obtained (Madia sativa) is indigenous to Chili, ..."

2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
".madia oil is obtained from the seeds of the Chilian plant Madia , which ... madia oil occupies an intermediate place between drying and semi-drying oils. ..."

3. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Walter Rogers Johnson (1848)
"0 9176 For the oil from : Madia-oil . . .0.9170 Bees-wax . . . 0.9600 Brazilian wax . ... + 2.5° " Madia-oil not even at 25° " Bees-wax . ..."

4. Chemical Technology: Or, Chemistry, Applied to the Arts and to Manufactures by Walter Rogers Johnson, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1848)
"madia oil.—The plant from which this oil is obtained, Madia sativa, belonging to the ... that sweet salad oil, for which purpose madia oil may be used, ..."

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