oil cake; scrap cake
The solid residue left after pressing oil from seeds or fruits, used as animal feed or fertilizer. A technical term in agriculture and food processing.
The oil cake left after pressing oil from rapeseed is used as fertilizer.
Soybean oil cake makes a high-quality feed.
油かす is a more common term for oil cake or fried food scraps, while 搾めかす specifically refers to the pressed residue from oil extraction.
Standard kanji-kana mixed spelling for 'oil cake'.
Uses the abbreviation 〆 for 搾め; rare in modern writing.
Rare kanji spelling using 滓 (dregs).
Rare kanji spelling using 糟 (lees).
Rare kanji spelling using 滓 (dregs).
Rare variant using 乄 (a variant of 搾).
Compound of 搾め (shime, the continuative form of 搾める 'to press, squeeze') + かす (kasu 'dregs, lees'). The kanji spellings reflect the meaning of pressed residue.