Oil crops - Yuryo Sakumotsu

Japanese: 油料作物 - ゆりょうさくもつ

A crop grown for the purpose of extracting fats and oils. In a broad sense, it includes crops such as corn, rice, and cotton that produce fats and oils as a by-product. Drying oils such as perilla, hemp, flax, paulownia, and sunflower are used as raw materials for industrial use, paints, and printing inks, while non-drying oils such as olive, peanut, camellia, and castor are used for cooking, lighting, medicine, and cosmetics, and semi-drying oils such as soybean, sesame, and rapeseed are widely used for cooking.

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Japanese:

油脂の採取を目的として栽培される作物。広義にはトウモロコシ，イネ，ワタなど副産的に油脂を採るものも含む。工業用原料・塗料・印刷用インキなどの原料としてはエゴマ，アサ，アマ，キリ，ヒマワリなどの乾性油，食用・灯用・薬用・化粧用としてはオリーブ，ラッカセイ，ツバキ，ヒマなどの不乾性油，またダイズ，ゴマ，ナタネなどの半乾性油は食用として多く用いられる。

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