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Noun: paraffin oil
Usage: Brit
  1. A flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters
    "They relied on paraffin oil lamps during the power outage";
    - kerosene, kerosine, lamp oil, coal oil [N. Amer], paraffin [Brit]

Derived forms: paraffin oils

Type of: fuel, hydrocarbon

Encyclopedia: Paraffin oil