vegetable butter
any of various fixed vegetable fats resembling butter in consistency, as cocoa butter.
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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 VerneThe people were everywhere employed in collecting the fruit of the shea trees, from which they prepared vegetable butter.
Great African Travellers | W.H.G. KingstonVege-butter is a vegetable butter, made from the oil which is extracted from cocoanuts and clarified.
The Allinson Vegetarian Cookery Book | Thomas R. AllinsonAmong 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. KingstonA species of vegetable butter obtained from the common cocoa nut—the fruit of Cocos nucifera, the cocoa palm.
British Dictionary definitions for vegetable butter
any of a group of vegetable fats having the consistency of butter
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