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oleo

margarine: I prefer butter to oleo.
Not to be confused with:
olio – a dish of many ingredients; hodgepodge; medley or potpourri; miscellany: an olio of gadgets
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o·le·o

 (ō′lē-ō′)
n. pl. o·le·os
Margarine.

[Short for oleomargarine.]
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o•le•o

(ˈoʊ liˌoʊ)

n.
Older Use. margarine.
[1880–85]

oleo-

a combining form meaning “oil”: oleoresin.
[< Latin, comb. form representing oleum oil]
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Oleo

When Margarine was referred to by its original full name of Oleomargarine, it was often just called “oleo” for short.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.oleo - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butteroleo - a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter
vegetable oil, oil - any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants
stick - a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine
paste, spread - a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
trans fatty acid - a fatty acid that has been produced by hydrogenating an unsaturated fatty acid (and so changing its shape); found in processed foods such as margarine and fried foods and puddings and commercially baked goods and partially hydrogenated vegetable oils
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Os oleos essenciais (OES) sao obtidos de flores, cascas de frutos, folhas, cascas de arvore, raizes, sementes e entre outros, estes possuem em sua estrutura compostos predominantemente com alto ponto de ebulicao e volatilidade, caracterizando-se tambem por outras caracteristicas singulares como o sabor e odor (SANTURIO et al., 2011; SIMOES et al., 1999).
Para extracao de oleos, os metodos tradicionais envolvem a prensagem e a extracao com solvente Soxlhet, ou a combinacao de ambos (Robbers et al., 1997; Moretto e Fett, 1998, Chigozie et al., 2014).
* Hallstar has purchased bioactive ingredient supplier Oleos. Located in Montpellier, France, Oleos's proprietary oleo eco-extraction technology produces natural, sustainable and clinically proven bioactive compounds for cosmetic applications including anti-aging qualities, dark spot diminishment and skin whitening.
Com tudo, os oleos essenciais com propriedade acaricida, podem ser considerados uma alternativa no controle desta praga.
5 August 2016 - Chicago, Illinois-based specialty chemistry company Hallstar has acquired Montpellier, France-based bioactive ingredient supplier Oleos, the company said.
O interesse sobre a utilizacao de oleos volateis extraidos de frutos quiropterocoricos (com sindrome de dispersao), como estrategia para a restauracao de ecossistemas florestais, vem aumentando progressivamente a partir dos trabalhos pioneiros de Mikich e Bianconi (2005), e Bianconi et al.
Essas enzimas podem ser usadas para catalisar a sintese de esteres de acidos carboxilicos, componentes importantes de aromas naturais empregados na industria alimenticia, que contribuem na formacao e acentuacao dos aromas em alimentos ou em catalisar a hidrolise de triacilglicerois aos acidos graxos correspondentes e glicerol, como na producao de biodiesel por esterificacao de oleos vegetais (JAEGER et al., 1993; MACEDO & PASTORE, 1997; FERNANDES, 2007).
O papel dos oleos alimentares na nutricao humana e umas das mais importantes areas de preocupacao e investigacao no campo da ciencia nutricional (Fats and fatty acids in human nutrition.