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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter [syn: margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French oléomargarine, from olé- + margarine margarine Date: 1873 margarine

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a fatty substance extracted from beef fat and often used in margarine. 2 US a margarine made from vegetable oils.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Oleomargarine O`le*o*mar"ga*rine, n. [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.] [Written also oleomargarin.] 1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. 2. An artificial butter made by churning this oil with more or less milk. Note: Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake.

Foolish Dictionary

The White Bread's Burden. From Eng. olio, a mixture, and Grk. margino, to be furious. A furious mixture.