oil-meal

A farmer feeds oil-meal to his chickens.

Definition

Noun: - Dry oil cake: "oil-meal" refers to the dry, solid residue left after oil has been extracted from seeds or nuts, such as flaxseed or cottonseed, often used as animal feed or fertilizer.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Farmers often mix oil-meal into livestock feed to add protein. (The dry residue from oil extraction is used as a nutritional supplement for animals.)
  • The factory produced oil-meal from crushed sesame seeds. (The solid byproduct was created after pressing the seeds for oil.)

Advanced Usage

• "oil-meal cake": a compressed form of oil-meal, often sold in blocks for feeding cattle.

  • The rancher purchased several tons of oil-meal cake for the winter. (A compacted version of the dry residue used as feed.)

• "oil-meal fertilizer": oil-meal ground into a powder and used as a soil amendment.

  • Gardeners sometimes apply oil-meal fertilizer to enrich the soil with nitrogen. (The ground residue acts as a slow-release organic fertilizer.)

Variants and Related Words

• Oilseed meal (n): a general term for the meal derived from any oil-bearing seed.

  • Soybean oilseed meal is a common ingredient in poultry feed. (The residue from soybean oil extraction.)

• Oil cake (n): another term for the compressed form of oil-meal.

  • The mill sold oil cake to local dairy farmers. (The solid block of pressed seed residue.)

Synonyms

• Seed cake: the pressed residue from seeds after oil extraction.
• Press cake: the compacted solid left after pressing oil from seeds.

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