Hypernyms for "oil"
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                    almond oil
                    animal oil
                    babacu oil
                    babassu oil
                    calamus oil
                    camphor oil
                    canola
                    canola oil
                    chaulmoogra oil
                    Chinese wood oil
                    coconut oil
                    cohune fat
                    cohune oil
                    cohune-nut oil
                    colza oil
                    cooking oil
                    copra oil
                    corn oil
                    cottonseed oil
                    croton oil
                    crude
                    crude oil
                    drying oil
                    essential oil
                    expressed almond oil
                    fatty oil
                    fixed oil
                    flaxseed oil
                    fossil oil
                    fuel oil
                    fusel oil
                    grease
                    groundnut oil
                    heating oil
                    hedeoma oil
                    hydnocarpus oil
                    hyssop oil
                    lemon grass
                    lemongrass
                    lemongrass oil
                    linseed oil
                    lubricating oil
                    madia oil
                    mineral oil
                    motor oil
                    mustard oil
                    neroli oil
                    oil
                    olive oil
                    palm oil
                    peanut oil
                    pennyroyal oil
                    petroleum
                    rape oil
                    rapeseed oil
                    resid
                    residual oil
                    rock oil
                    safflower oil
                    salad oil
                    sassafras oil
                    sesame oil
                    shale oil
                    soyabean oil
                    soybean oil
                    spike lavender oil
                    spike oil
                    stand oil
                    sunflower oil
                    sunflower-seed oil
                    sweet almond oil
                    sweet oil
                    tall oil
                    tung oil
                    volatile oil
                    walnut oil
            
    What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.