Oil Cake (Noun)
Meaning
Mass of e.g. linseed or cottonseed or soybean from which the oil has been pressed; used as food for livestock.
Classification
Nouns denoting foods and drinks.
Examples
- Farmers used oil cake as nutritious feed for their cattle and poultry, adding essential proteins and vitamins to their diets.
- After extracting the oil from cottonseed, the resulting oil cake was given to the livestock as a nutritional supplement.
- Linseed oil cake has become increasingly popular as an eco-friendly alternative for feeding horses due to its nutritional value.
- As the oil extraction industry grew, oil cake from soybean by-products found a market in animal feed, serving as a viable option for many farmers.
- Animal nutritionists highly recommended feeding oil cake made from groundnut as it had essential proteins necessary for animal growth.