vegetable tallow

noun

1. any of several tallowlike substances of vegetable origin, used in making candles, soap, etc., and as lubricants.
2. tallow tree.

vegetable tallow

noun

1. any of various types of tallow that are obtained from plants

Word History and Origins

Origin of vegetable tallow¹

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

Vegetable tallow is also exported in large quantities from this part of Hu-peh.

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Tall′ow-tree, the name given to trees of different kinds which produce a thick oil or vegetable tallow, or a somewhat resinous substance, capable of making candles.—adj.

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Cocoanut oil was once used extensively in the manufacture of fine candles, and is still occasionally in demand for this purpose in the Philippines, in combination with the vegetable tallow of a species of Stillingia.

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The principal exports are fish, coarse black tea, cotton, vegetable tallow, sweet potatoes, and some wheat.

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“To the foregoing list I must add, pipeclay, vegetable tallow, which might be useful in commerce, being of fine quality; and the ore, found in abundance round here, of which I can make nothing, but which I believe to be copper. “12th.—I received from the rajah a present of an ourang-outang, young, and like others I have seen, but better clothed, with fine long hair of a bright chestnut color.

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