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

Example Sentences

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vegetable butter

Not a day passes that they do not despatch huge boats laden with rice, millet, cotton, honey, vegetable butter, and other native products.

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers

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

Allow 1 egg, 1 small tomato, 1/4 oz. butter or vegetable butter, to each person.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

Description of the shea, or vegetable butter tree.

From Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa by Mungo Park

On leaving the hut, I noticed to our left a magnificent avocado pear-tree—Persea gratissima—the fruit of which yields a pulp called "vegetable butter."

From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore