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

Word History and Origins

Origin of vegetable butter¹

First recorded in 1830–40

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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