Crops grown chiefly for the oil pressed or extracted from their seed or fruit: the oil palms, rapeseed, sunflower, sesame, safflower, castor oil plant, olive, coconut, and the two legumes FAO classes as oil crops rather than pulses, soybean and peanut. Belongs here: a crop whose primary commercial product is its oil. Does not belong here: a crop grown chiefly for fibre even where it also yields usable oil as a secondary product, such as flax or hemp, held under Fibre and Other Industrial Crops.
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1. Wikipedia: Vegetable oil (oil crops)
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Most, but not all vegetable oils are extracted from the fruits or seeds of plants.
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