"whale oil" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: whale oils [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} whale oil (countable and uncountable, plural whale oils)
  1. Any of various oils and fats extracted from the blubber of whales and used in the manufacture of soap and lubricants (formerly as an illuminating oil). Wikipedia link: whale oil Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Fats and oils Related terms: sperm oil, spermaceti Translations (oil or fat extracted from whale blubber): 鯨油 (Chinese Mandarin), 鲸油 (jīngyóu) (Chinese Mandarin), hvalolje [common-gender] (Danish), walvistraan [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), valaanrasva (english: fat) (Finnish), valaanöljy (english: oil) (Finnish), valasöljy (Finnish), aceite de balea [masculine] (Galician), Tran [masculine] (German), olio di balena [masculine] (Italian), 鯨油 (geiyu) (alt: げいゆ) (Japanese), wē parāoa (Maori), hvalolje [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ulei de cașalot [neuter] (Romanian), valolja [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-whale_oil-en-noun-5mhR-rXY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Japanese terms with redundant script codes, Whaling

Inflected forms

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