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

The people were everywhere employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter, mentioned in former parts of this work.

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

To prepare, take amount of flour required, and allow 1 or 2 ozs. vegetable butter or nut oil to the lb.

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

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

From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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

From Public School Domestic Science by Hoodless, Adelaide

The people were everywhere employed in collecting the fruit of the Shea-trees, from which they prepare the vegetable butter, mentioned in a former part of this work.

From Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770. by Maxwell, Patrick