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Definition: Palm Oil |
Palm OilNoun1. Oil from nuts of oil palms especially the African oil palm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Food & Agriculture | A semisolid or solid red or yellowish brown edible fat obtained from the flesh of the fruit esp. of the African oil palm and used chiefly in making soap, candles and lubricating greases. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Palm Oil Bribes, or rather money for bribes, fees, etc. "In Ireland the machinery of a political movement will not work unless there is plenty of palm-oil to prevent friction."- Irish Seditions from 1792 to 1880, p. 39. "The rich may escape with whole skins, but those without `palm-oil' have scant mercy."- Nineteenth Century, Aug., 1892, p. 312. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are two well known species of palm oil, the better known one is the one originating from Guinea, Africa and was first illustrated by Nicholaas Jacquin in 1763, hence its name, Elaeis Guinnesis Jacq..
The fruit is reddish, about the size of a large plum and grows in large bunches. A bunch of fruits can weight between 10 to 40 kilograms each. Each fruit contains a single seed (the palm kernel). Oil is extracted from both the pulp of the fruit (becoming palm oil) and the kernel (palm kernel oil).
Palm oil itself is reddish and contains a high amount of carotenoids.
Palm oil is used as cooking oil, to make margerine and is a component of some processed foods. The oil is high in Olefins, a potentially valuable chemical group that can be processed into many non-food products as well.
The oil palm originated in West Africa but has since been planted succesfully in tropical regions within 20 degrees of the equator. The world's largest producer and exporter of palm oil today is Malaysia, producing about 50% of the world's supply of palm oil.
Indonesia is the second largest world producer of palm oil producing approx 30% of world palm oil volume.
Both nations are expanding the palm oil capacity and the market continues to grow.
There is evidence of palm oil use in Ancient Egypt.
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Crosswords: Palm Oil |
| English words defined with "palm oil": African oil palm ♦ babassu, babassu palm ♦ coco de macao, cohune, cohune palm ♦ Elaeis guineensis ♦ Oil palm, Oil tree, Oily palm, Orbignya cohune, Orbignya martiana, Orbignya phalerata, Orbignya spesiosa ♦ palm kernel, palm nut, Palmitic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "palm oil": BRANNER-MACHINE TENDER ♦ COATING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ SCHEELIA BUTYRACEA, SCHEELIA ZONENSIS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "palm oil": Palmitin. (references) |
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Business | The upward trend in palm oil production is expected to continue as new farmers go into production every year, new trees begin bearing fruit and older trees mature and increase their yields. (references) | |
Economic History | Egypt | Palm oil is used mostly for margarine and soap and imported by the semi-private Food Industries Holding company for domestic production and for modest exports. (references) |
Malaysia | The major industrial water polluters are food processors (40%), rubber and palm oil industries (35%), industrial chemicals and electronics (12%), and textiles (9%). These industries, while they make the greatest contribution to Malaysia's GDP, discharge significant quantities of high level pollutants in their wastewater. (references) | |
Malaysia | Malaysia is the world's largest producer and exporter of palm oil, accounting for one-half of the world's output. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Initial reports on August 9 indicated that unknown assailants shot and killed 31 employees of PT Bumi Flora, a palm oil plantation in Idi Rayeuk in East Aceh. (references) |
Indigenous People | Indonesia | In some cases, NGO's report that farmers were evicted from the land without compensation to allow for new palm oil plantations staffed by Javanese transmigrants. (references) |
Malaysia | A four-member team from the National Human Rights Commission visited northern Sarawak and the Bakun area in October to investigate complaints related to the construction of the dam, logging, palm oil cultivation, and other development projects. (references) | |
Political Economy | Malaysia | Oil and gas, palm oil, natural rubber, cocoa, and tropical timber are also significant contributors to the economy. (references) |
Solomon Islands | Commercial export activities, which included some plantation production of copra, cocoa, and palm oil, a fish cannery, a gold mine on Guadalcanal, and small resort and diving enterprises, have ceased to operate; only the logging industry continued to operate, albeit at a reduced level. (references) | |
Trade | Indonesia | Export restrictions and controls are applied by the government to a number of food commodities, most notably crude palm oil (CPO) which remains subject to a 5 percent export tax, in an effort to ensure adequate domestic availability and stable prices of such products, particularly with the weak economy in recent years. (references) |
Worker Rights | Malaysia | In February the National Union of Plantation Workers (NUPW) and the Malaysian Agriculture Producers Association (MAPA) agreed on a monthly minimum wage for palm oil plantation workers of $84 (325 RM) per month. (references) |
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| Thailand | Chumporn Palm Oil Industry Public Co., Ltd. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
palm oil | 168 |
palm oil price | 8 |
crude palm oil | 7 |
palm oil candle | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "palm oil"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vaj palme (palm grease), ryshfet (boodle, bribe, fix, graft, hush money, rake off, swag). (various references) | |
Arabic | زيت النخيل (palmoil). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | подкуп (boodle, bribe, drop, fix, graft, grease, hush money, oil, palm grease, payoff, payola, refresher, subornation, sugarplum, sweetener, vail), палмово масло, палмин. (various references) | |
Czech | palmový olej. (various references) | |
Danish | palmeolie (palm olein). (various references) | |
Dutch | palmolie. (various references) | |
Finnish | eteläamerikkalainen palmuöljy (south american palm oil). (various references) | |
French | huile de palme. (various references) | |
German | Palmoel. (various references) | |
Greek | φοινικέλαιο (palm fat). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שמן תמרים. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pálmaolaj, kenés (lubrication, soap). (various references) | |
Italian | olio di palma. (various references) | |
Manx | ooill phalm. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | almpay oilay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | óleo de palmeira, óleo de palma (palm grease, palmoil). (various references) | |
Romanian | ulei de palmier. (various references) | |
Russian | пальмовое масло. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | palmino ulje. (various references) | |
Spanish | aceite de Palma. (various references) | |
Swedish | palmolja, handtryckning (handshake, pressure of the hand, tip). (various references) | |
Turkish | rüşvet (backhander, boodle, bribe, bribery, corruption, douceur, graft, inducement, kickback, palm grease, payoff, payola, pie, sop), hurma yağı. (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-l-m-o-p" | |
-1 letter: lipoma. | |
-2 letters: limpa, maill, milpa, molal. | |
-3 letters: lamp, lima, limo, limp, lipa, loam, mail, mall, mill, milo, moil, mola, moll, olla, opal, pail, pall, palm, pial, pill, pima, poll. | |
-4 letters: ail, aim, all, alp, ami, amp, ill, imp, lam, lap, lip, lop, map, mil, moa, mol, mop, oil, pal, pam, pia, poi, pol, pom. | |
-5 letters: ai, al, am, la, li, lo, ma, mi, mo, om, op, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-l-m-o-p" | |
+2 letters: liposomal, optimally, papilloma, polemical. | |
+3 letters: episomally, multipolar, myopically, papillomas, polynomial, proximally. | |
+4 letters: allomorphic, compliantly, impolitical, megalopolis, papillomata, patelliform, plasmolysis, plasmolytic, polemically, polynomials, pomological, prothallium. | |
+5 letters: allomorphism, compellation, complexional, impersonally, monopodially, morphallaxis, phonemically, plasmolyzing, primordially, pronominally, slumpflation. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 61 6C 6D 4F 69 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01100001 01101100 01101101 00100000 01001111 01101001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P a l m   O i l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0061 006C 006D 004F 0069 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)506778792497578 |
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