vegetable butter

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noun

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

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Origin of vegetable butter

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby vegetable butter

Vega Baja, vegan, vegeburger, Vegemite, vegetable, vegetable butter, vegetable cellar, vegetable ivory, vegetable kingdom, vegetable marrow, vegetable oil

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How to use vegetable butter in a sentence

Before reaching Sansanding, he was present at the harvest of vegetable butter, which is the produce of a tree called Shea.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers|Jules Verne
The people were everywhere employed in collecting the fruit of the shea trees, from which they prepared vegetable butter.
Great African Travellers|W.H.G. Kingston
Vege-butter is a vegetable butter, made from the oil which is extracted from cocoanuts and clarified.
The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book|Thomas R. Allinson
Among them were several shea-trees, from which vegetable butter is prepared; the fruit greatly resembling a large olive.
Saved from the Sea|W.H.G. Kingston

A species of vegetable butter obtained from the common cocoa nut—the fruit of Cocos nucifera, the cocoa palm.
Cooley's Cyclopdia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I|Arnold Cooley

British Dictionary definitions for vegetable butter

vegetable butter

noun

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

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