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

I cut off one then, and looking at Jack nodded, proceeded to peel it, and enjoyed the new sweet vegetable butter, flavoured with pear and honey, for the first time in my life.

From Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea by Browne, Gordon

If vegetable butter is used, 3 ozs. will do, as it contains much less water.

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

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

From Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures by Riou, Edouard

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 D'Anvers, N.

The most interesting is the karita, or butter-tree, from the nuts of which a vegetable butter is extracted with all the delectable flavour of chocolate.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir