diesel
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- n German engineer (born in France) who invented the diesel engine (1858-1913)
- n an internal-combustion engine that burns heavy oil
- The diesel, widely used in trucks and some European cars, offers 25% better fuel economy than conventional engines.
- Jatropha seeds produce clean-burning diesel (without driving up your grocery bill).
- General Motors, whose car-studded Motoramas have become one of the brightest offerings in auto showmanship, decided last February to bring belated glamour to the plain-Jane diesel .