margarin

Other forms: margarins

Definitions of margarin
  1. noun
    a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
    synonyms: margarine, marge, oleo, oleomargarine
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    types:
    stick
    a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
    type of:
    paste, spread
    a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
  2. noun
    a glyceryl ester of margaric acid
    synonyms: glycerol trimargarate
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    type of:
    glyceryl ester
    an ester of glycerol
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