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An important oil yielding plant is
  1. Carthamus tinctorious
  2. Cicer arietinum
  3. Lens esculanta
  4. Eleusine coracana

A
Lens esculanta
B
Cicer arietinum
C
Carthamus tinctorious
D
Eleusine coracana
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Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) is a highly branched, herbaceous, thistle-like annual plant. It is commercially cultivated for vegetable oil extracted from the seeds. There are two types of safflower that produce different kinds of oil one high in monounsaturated fatty acid (oleic acid) and the other high in polyunsaturated fatty acid (linoleic acid). Currently the predominant edible oil market is for the former, which is lower in saturates than olive oil, for example. The latter is used in painting in the place of linseed oil, particularly with white paints, as it does not have the yellow tint, which linseed oil possesses. It is an important oil yielding plant. Thus, option A is correct.

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