Oleosity: alternatives and connections

Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

The state of being fat; fatness.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines

An organic base belonging to the phenylamines. It may be regarded as ammonia in which one hydrogen atom has been replaced by the radic…

oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines

An oily liquid derived from parsley.

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Ba…

To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.

a colorless oily compound extracted from coal tar and used in manufacturing synthetic resins

By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha a…

An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut.

An oily, colorless fluid, CBr3.COH, related to bromoform, as chloral is to chloroform, and obtained by the action of bromine on alcoho…

An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,…

A marine fish (Thaleichthys Pacificus), allied to the smelt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily…

An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.

A yellow oily liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.