petroleum

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pet·rol·eum [petroleum petroleums] BrE [pəˈtrəʊliəm] NAmE [pəˈtroʊliəm] noun uncountable
mineral oil that is found under the ground or the sea and is used to produce petrol/gas, ↑paraffin, ↑diesel oil, etc.

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from medieval Latin, from Latin petra ‘rock’ (from Greek) + Latin oleum ‘oil’.

Example Bank:
•The government suspended its supplies of petroleum to the country as a result of the crisis.
•There were still 30 million barrels of refined petroleum in storage.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil