| 释义 |
butter tree in American English any of several trees, as the shea, whose fatty seeds yield a butterlike substance butter tree in American Englishnounany of several tropical trees of the sapodilla family, having seeds that yield a butterlike oil Word origin [1820–30 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boomerang, insider, morphology, takeoff, tetrapod |