Definition of butyraceous in US English:
butyraceous
adjective ˌbyo͞odəˈrāSHəsˌbjudəˈreɪʃəsˌbjudəˈreɪʃəs
Of or like butter.
Example sentencesExamples
- Clearly, the selection process for membership ensures the selection of balbutient loggerheads with butyraceous brains jectigating in the reniform hallways of mediocrity.
- The flowers yield their active properties to water by infusion, and when distilled give over a small proportion of volatile oil, which on cooling assumes a butyraceous consistence and contains an appreciable portion of ammonia.
- A volatile oil is contained in the external coat of the seeds, while a green-colored, fat oil of a butyraceous consistency, is obtained by expression of their inclosed substance.
- They are moist, round, and convex with a butyraceous consistency and a slight gray-yellow color.
- Palm oil is of a butyraceous consistence, of a reddish-yellow or orange-yellow color, and a pleasant odor.
Definition of butyraceous in US English:
butyraceous
adjectiveˌbjudəˈreɪʃəsˌbyo͞odəˈrāSHəs
Of or like butter.
Example sentencesExamples
- They are moist, round, and convex with a butyraceous consistency and a slight gray-yellow color.
- A volatile oil is contained in the external coat of the seeds, while a green-colored, fat oil of a butyraceous consistency, is obtained by expression of their inclosed substance.
- Clearly, the selection process for membership ensures the selection of balbutient loggerheads with butyraceous brains jectigating in the reniform hallways of mediocrity.
- Palm oil is of a butyraceous consistence, of a reddish-yellow or orange-yellow color, and a pleasant odor.
- The flowers yield their active properties to water by infusion, and when distilled give over a small proportion of volatile oil, which on cooling assumes a butyraceous consistence and contains an appreciable portion of ammonia.