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margarine
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun margarine has 1 sense
- margarine(n = noun.food) margarin, marge, oleo, oleomargarine - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter; Array has particulars: stick
is a kind of paste, spread
CIDE DICTIONARY
margarine, n. [F.; see margarin.].
- A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called
oleomargarine ; artificial butter. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]"The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not." [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - Margarin. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
margarine, n. a butter-substitute made from vegetable oils or animal fats with milk etc.
Etymology
F, misapplication of a chem. term, f. margarique f. Gk margaron pearl
THESAURUS
margarine
butter, buttermilk, certified milk, cheese, condensed milk, cream, dairy products, ghee, half-and-half, heavy cream, light cream, milk, nonfat dry milk, oleo, oleomargarine, raw milk, skim milk, sour cream, whey, whipping cream, yogurt
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