palm oil

a yellow butterlike oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm and used as an edible fat and for making soap, candles, etc.

oil obtained from various species of palm.

Origin of palm oil

First recorded in 1620–30

We also observed the process for preparing the palm-oil which I have before described.

A Voyage Round the World, Vol. I |James Holman
Palm-oil trees are common west of the Chungu, but none appeared east of it.

The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 |David Livingstone
He had picked up a smattering of English from the Liverpool trading ships which came to Bonney for palm-oil from the river.

A Book of Discovery |Margaret Bertha (M. B.) Synge
The palm-oil tree is indigenous and abundant from the river Gambia to the Congo.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 |Various

He heaped two large spoonfuls of palm-oil chop upon the plate before the man.

Sanders of the River |Edgar Wallace

palm oil

a yellow butter-like oil obtained from the fruit of the oil palm, used as an edible fat and in soap