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vegetable butter
noun
- any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.
vegetable butter
noun
- any of a group of vegetable fats having the consistency of butter
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vegetable butter1
First recorded in 1830–40
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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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