A drying oil extracted from flax seed and used in making such things as oil paints.

synonym: flaxseed oil.

Roget 356: oil, fat, butter, cream, grease, tallow, suet, lard, dripping exunge^†, blubber; glycerin, stearin, elaine [Chem], oleagine^†; soap; soft soap, wax, cerement; paraffin, spermaceti, adipocere^†; petroleum, mineral, mineral rock, mineral crystal, mineral oil; vegetable oil, colza oil^†, olive oil, salad oil, linseed oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil, nut oil; animal oil, neat's foot oil, train oil; ointment, unguent, liniment; aceite^†, amole^†, Barbados tar^†; fusel oil, grain oil, rape oil, seneca oil; hydrate of amyl, ghee^†; heating oil, #2 oil, No.    2 oil, distillate, residual oils, kerosene, jet fuel, gasoline, naphtha; stearin.    ... show more

Dutch: lijnolie, lijnzaadolie
Polish: olej lniany, olej z nasion lnu, olej z siemienia lnianego, olej z lnu