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Bassia butyracea
(gcide) | Mahwa tree \Mah"wa tree`\ (Bot.)
An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also
Bassia butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels,
and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating
drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa
and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.
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Bassia butyracea
(gcide) | Butter \But"ter\ (b[u^]t"t[~e]r), n. [OE. botere, butter, AS.
butere, fr. L. butyrum, Gr. boy`turon; either fr. boy`s ox,
cow + turo`s cheese; or, perhaps, of Scythian origin. Cf.
Cow.]
1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by
churning.
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2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence,
or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the
chlorides, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride of
antimony; also, certain concrete fat oils remaining nearly
solid at ordinary temperatures, as butter of cacao,
vegetable butter, shea butter.
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Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at
table.
Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower.
Butter print, a piece of carved wood used to mark pats of
butter; -- called also butter stamp. --Locke.
Butter tooth, either of the two middle incisors of the
upper jaw.
Butter tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Bassia, the seeds
of which yield a substance closely resembling butter. The
butter tree of India is the Bassia butyracea; that of
Africa is the Shea tree (Bassia Parkii). See {Shea
tree}.
Butter trier, a tool used in sampling butter.
Butter wife, a woman who makes or sells butter; -- called
also butter woman. [Obs. or Archaic]
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