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 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

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 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

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

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

From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Benett, Léon