olive oil

English

Etymology

From olive + oil. Compare earlier oil of olives.

A bottle of olive oil

Noun

olive oil (countable and uncountable, plural olive oils)

  1. A vegetable oil, pressed from olives, and used in cooking and as a salad dressing; it is high in unsaturated fatty acids.

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