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vegetable butter

noun

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


vegetable butter

noun

  1. any of a group of vegetable fats having the consistency of butter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of vegetable butter1

First recorded in 1830–40
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Example Sentences

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

The people were everywhere employed in collecting the fruit of the shea trees, from which they prepared vegetable butter.

Vege-butter is a vegetable butter, made from the oil which is extracted from cocoanuts and clarified.

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

A species of vegetable butter obtained from the common cocoa nut—the fruit of Cocos nucifera, the cocoa palm.

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