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
Congressman Harold Knutson wrathfully contemplated the spectacle of city Republicans working for oleo with Southern Democrats.
From Time Magazine Archive
In prewar days, per capita consumption of oleo was only 2.9 lbs. a year compared to 16.7 lbs. of butter.
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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