Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See oil.

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Examples

  • Back here in the United States, studies conducted in the 1990s at the University of Illinois helped establish the antifertility effects of pea-oil—so much so that it is now being studied as a possible natural contraceptive.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • An 'eve'y tem pea-oil light flicker, look roun' to shee who was.

    Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

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