Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various hydrogenated vegetable oils, such as palm oil or cottonseed oil, having a semisolid or granular consistency, used especially in South Asian cooking.
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- noun botany the entire plant kingdom or trees that bear fruits but no evident flowers.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The promoters of Amrit Banaspati Company ABC, better known for its vanaspati and edible oil brands like Gagan, Ginni and Marigold, are said to be exploring various options, which range from selling its brands to offloading a substantial stake in the company.
Morning News Roundup Deals India Staff 2011
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Most often, though, the vanaspati reconciles itself to a second-class existence, sad but resigned to the fact that Husband-Ji hankers after ghee.
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Now, the scheme sometimes falls apart at this point – vanaspati never tastes as good as asli ghee after all, and in the rare cases that it does, the asli ghee usually evicts the vanaspati, taking recourse to the time-tested two-litres-of-kerosene-and-a-nylon-sari method.
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Most often, though, the vanaspati reconciles itself to a second-class existence, sad but resigned to the fact that Husband-Ji hankers after ghee.
Archive 2005-09-01 ps 2005
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Now, the scheme sometimes falls apart at this point – vanaspati never tastes as good as asli ghee after all, and in the rare cases that it does, the asli ghee usually evicts the vanaspati, taking recourse to the time-tested two-litres-of-kerosene-and-a-nylon-sari method.
Archive 2005-09-01 ps 2005
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Sunday, Update on pics barbylon 2004
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Its portfolio of brands in bakery fats, vanaspati and refined oils includes AMRIT, BANSARI, GINNI, MERRIGOLD and SUNEHRI TEER, among others.
unknown title 2011
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It also manufactures the popular brand of GAGAN vanaspati under license from its associate company Amrit Corp Limited.
unknown title 2011
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Bunge India would also acquire rights to GAGAN, the vanaspati brand held by Amrit Corp which is currently licensed to Amrit Banaspati.
unknown title 2011
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Wipro not looking at divesting vanaspati, baby care biz
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