poppy-seed oil

plural poppy-seed oils

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of poppy seed oil.

   The poppies were to make cooking oil, poppy-seed oil—Lina and I had to crack and shell the pods—and my poor father, deploring it all, sadly talked of olives.

   1989 February 12, Sybille Bedford, “Une Vie de Château”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2026

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   Alternative fuels were a bit more complicated. Every military engine, whether in a jet, helicopter, tank, or generator, is designed, for purposes of standardization, to run on jet fuel, or JP-8. […] Pure poppy-seed oil mixed with JP-8 remained an option, though.

   2011 March, Nicholas Schmidle, “Putting Poppies in the Gas Tank”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2012

   Here, balls of kurut are submerged in hot water until it turns milky. This is the dressing for kurutob, to be poured over the shredded fatir, followed by onions fried in poppy-seed oil, with its faint smack of almonds.

   2018 June 21, Ligaya Mishan, “At Cafe Dushanbe, a Chef Stays True to His Tajik Roots”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2018