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Definition of Menhaden oil
1. Noun. A fatty oil obtained from the menhaden fish and used in paint and ink and in treating leather.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Menhaden Oil
Literary usage of Menhaden oil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"menhaden oil is an American fish oil, and, like other fish oils, is prepared from
... menhaden oil consists almost entirely of glycerides, as shown by its ..."
2. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"In the following year this family made one hundred barrels. Then, the value of
menhaden oil having become recognized, many oil presses—of a more or less ..."
3. History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States by Emory Richard Johnson, Thurman William Van Metre, Grover Gerhardt Huebner, David Scott Hanchet (1915)
"The menhaden oil and fertilizer industry, 199. The sponge fishery, 201. Though the
fisheries of the eastern coast of the United States, exclusive of New ..."
4. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1880)
"(1290) Products of tlie distillation of menhaden oil Soap.—When the lime soap
produced by ... menhaden oil (from the ..."
5. Chemical Technology, Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to Arts and Manufactures by Charles Edward Groves, William Thorp, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp, Thomas Richardson, Edmund Ronalds, Henry Watts, William Joseph Dibdin (1895)
"menhaden oil is obtained from Alosa menhaden, a fish found on the Atlantic coast
of North America, and allied to the herring, the chad, and the pilchard. ..."
6. On the Zoological Position of Texas by Edward Drinker Cope (1880)
"Menhaden-oil used in currying leather, in rope making, for lubricating, ...
Pressed menhaden oil (Brevoortia tyrannus}, medium light-colored ..."
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