oleomargarine Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
margarine; oleo; marge; margarin.
WordNet
O`le*o*mar"ga*rine noun
Etymology
L.Definitions
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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. -
An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. ✍ 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.
