OLEIN
- a glyceride of oleic acid, also ELAIN, OLEINE, TRIOLEIN [n -S]
- the liquid portion of a fat [n OLEINS]
- colorless to yellowish, oily, water-insoluble liquid, C57H104O6, the triglyceride of oleic acid, present in many vegetable oils
- the oily or lower-melting fractions of a fat as distinguished from the solid or higher-melting constituents