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Butyraceous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Resembling butter in appearance, consistency, or chemical properties.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of, pertaining to or containing butter; buttery

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having the quality of butter; resembling butter; consisting of or containing butter. Also butyrous.

adj. having the qualities of butter or yielding or containing a substance like butter

Word Usage

"The “five products of the cow” are ignored, as in the western hemisphere of yore: one of the most useful, however, is produced by the Nje or Njeve, a towering butyraceous tree, differing from that which bears the Shea butternut."