fatty oil


noun Chemistry.

Origin of fatty oil

First recorded in 1825–35

British Dictionary definitions for fatty oil

fatty oil

noun

another name for fixed oil

Medical definitions for fatty oil

fatty oil

n.

A nonvolatile oil of animal or plant derivation, chemically a glyceride of a fatty acid, that is not capable of distillation and that is convertible into a soap by substituting the glycerine with an alkaline base.