oleo
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The key is oleo saccharum, which sounds like an ingredient from a laboratory, but is really just a process that pulls essential oils from citrus using sugar.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2020
But that hope might be oleo, a poor substitute.
From Time • May 13, 2013
The dairy lobby had persuaded most states to forbid or restrict the sale of colored oleo; it had prodded Congress in 1902 to impose a 10�-a-pound tax on the colored product.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1935, spread was 17.1 Ibs. for butter, only 3 lbs. for oleo.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was slightly better food—at midday, a bowl of real soup, perhaps a slice of vegetable, and at the end of the night shift, bread with oleo.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Vocabulary lists containing oleo
Scrabble: Four-Letter Words with 3 Vowels
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