oleic acid
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~ a colorless oily liquid occurring as a glyceride; it is the major fatty acid in olive oil and canola oil; used in making soap and cosmetics and ointments and lubricating oils
olein
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~ a naturally occurring glyceride of oleic acid that is found in fats and oils
oleo
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~ a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
oleo oil
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~ obtained from beef fat; used in making margarine and soap and in lubrication
oleomargarine
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~ a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
oleoresin capiscum
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~ an oleoresin extracted from the capsicum pepper plant
oleoresin
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~ a naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants
olfaction
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~ the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
olfactory brain
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~ a center in the cerebral hemispheres that governs the sense of smell in lower animals; in humans it seems to mediate complex emotional behavior
olfactory modality
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~ the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
olfactory bulb
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~ one of two enlargements at the terminus of the olfactory nerve at the base of the brain just above the nasal cavities
olfactory nerve
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~ a collective term for numerous olfactory filaments in the nasal mucosa
Olfersia
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~ genus of fern having only one species
Olfersia cervina
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~ tropical American terrestrial fern with leathery lanceolate fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polybotrya
Olga Korbut
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~ Soviet gymnast (born in 1955)
olibanum
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~ an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation
oligarch
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~ one of the rulers in an oligarchy
oligarchy
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~ a political system governed by a few people; "one of his cardinal convictions was that Britain was not run as a democracy but as an oligarchy"; "the big cities were notoriously in the hands of the oligarchy of local businessmen"
oligo
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~ (biochemistry) a polynucleotide whose molecules contain relatively few nucleotides