Definition of Menhaden oil

1. Noun. A fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather.

Substance meronyms: Brevoortia Tyrannis, Menhaden
Generic synonyms: Animal Oil

Lexicographical Neighbors of Menhaden Oil

meneer
meneers
meneghinite
meneghinites
menes
menetrier disease
menfolk
menfolks
meng
menge
menged
menges
menging
mengs
menhaden
menhaden oil (current term)
menhadens
menhir
menhirs
menial
menially
menials
menilite
menilites
mening
meninge
meningeal
meningeal arteries
meningeal artery
meningeal branch of internal carotid artery

Literary usage of Menhaden oil

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

1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"menhaden oil is an American fish oil, and, like other fish oils, is prepared from ... menhaden oil consists almost entirely of glycerides, as shown by its ..."

2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"In the following year this family made one hundred barrels. Then, the value of menhaden oil having become recognized, many oil presses—of a more or less ..."

3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1915)
"The menhaden oil and fertilizer industry, 199. The sponge fishery, 201. Though the fisheries of the eastern coast of the United States, exclusive of New ..."

4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"(1290) Products of tlie distillation of menhaden oil Soap.—When the lime soap produced by ... menhaden oil (from the ..."

5. 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)
"menhaden oil is obtained from Alosa menhaden, a fish found on the Atlantic coast of North America, and allied to the herring, the chad, and the pilchard. ..."

6. On the Zoological Position of Texas by Edward Drinker Cope (1880)
"Menhaden-oil used in currying leather, in rope making, for lubricating, ... Pressed menhaden oil (Brevoortia tyrannus}, medium light-colored ..."

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