vegetable butter

American  

noun

1. any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.

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vegetable butter British  

noun

1. any of a group of vegetable fats having the consistency of butter

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Etymology

Origin of vegetable butter

First recorded in 1830–40

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Example Sentences

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vegetable butter

The most interesting is the karita, or butter-tree, from the nuts of which a vegetable butter is extracted with all the delectable flavour of chocolate.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

Before reaching Sansanding, he was present at the harvest of vegetable butter, which is the produce of a tree called Shea.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Léon Benett

In this region are mines of lead, copper, gold, and iron, a rich soil, adapted to cotton, rice, indigo, sugar, coffee, and vegetable butter, with very cheap labor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various

Among them were several shea-trees, from which vegetable butter is prepared; the fruit greatly resembling a large olive.

From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Edouard Riou

The animal fats are more nutritive than the vegetable, butter and cream heading the list.

From Public School Domestic Science by Adelaide Hoodless

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