cottonseed oil

noun

: a pale yellow semidrying fatty oil that is obtained from the cottonseed and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and after hydrogenation in shortenings and margarine

Examples of cottonseed oil in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Seed oils include corn oil, canola oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, rice bran oil, peanut oil, grapeseed oil, and cottonseed oil. —Maggie O'Neill, Verywell Health, 26 Dec. 2024

In the restaurant's early days, McDonald's relied on a mixture of cottonseed oil and beef tallow for frying; this blend was still in use when breakfast items were added to the menu in the 1970s. —Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 May 2023

The space is so named because it is built around two enormous silos and the giant shoots that once processed cottonseed oil. —Jennifer Maas, Variety, 22 Nov. 2022

In addition to potatoes and salt, Utz’s chips are fried in a combination of cottonseed oil, corn oil, and/or sunflower oil. —Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Feb. 2023

Your eyes are coated with jojoba oil, vitamin E, and cottonseed oil to help prevent any tugging and keep them soothed and moisturized for hours. —Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 27 July 2022

Soybean oil, sunflower oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, grapeseed oil, and safflower oil. —Isadora Baum, Good Housekeeping, 19 Nov. 2020

But cottonseed oil is still one of the most widely consumed edible oils in the country. —Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2012

For decades, Crisco had only one ingredient, cottonseed oil. —Helen Zoe Veit, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Feb. 2012

Word History

First Known Use

1833, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cottonseed oil

• aerofoil
• cinquefoil
• hydrofoil
• quatrefoil
• airfoil
• benzoyl
• despoil
• embroil
• etoile
• gargoyle
• recoil
• subsoil

Kids Definition

cottonseed oil

noun

: a pale yellow oil that is obtained from cottonseed and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and in shortenings and margarine

Medical Definition

cottonseed oil

noun

cot·​ton·​seed oil ˈkät-ᵊn-ˌsēd- 

: a fatty oil that is obtained from cottonseed, is pale yellow after refining, contains principally glycerides of linoleic, oleic, and palmitic acids, and is used chiefly in salad and cooking oils and after hydrogenation in shortenings and margarine