• n.
    ⦿(medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless
    lexical concept

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wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:snake oil
wn:interlingual indexili:i116224

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelsnake oil