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butter-fat

butter-fat is the alternative form of butterfat.

Meaning of butterfat

Noun

butterfat (countable and uncountable, plural butterfats)

  1. The fatty components of milk and other dairy products.
    • The first change which milk undergoes in the stomach is coagulation. The casein and butterfat separates from the serum, which is soon absorbed unchanged into the blood, according to the laws of diffusion. [Quoting Wagner's Manual of Physiology.]1870 March 26, A. M. Ballot, “Practical Remarks on the Food of Infants, with an Account of the Use of Buttermilk in Rearing Infants”, in The Medical Times and Gazette. A Journal of Medical Science...

Forms of butter-fat

pluralbutter-fats

Questions about butter-fat

What is butter-fat the alternative form of?
Butter-fat is the alternative form of butterfat.

Words near butter-fat in the dictionary

  1. butter-and-egger
  2. butter-and-eggers
  3. butter-and-eggs
  4. butter-box
  5. butter-boxes
  6. butter-fat
  7. butter-fats
  8. butter-fingered
  9. butter-flower
  10. butter-ham
  11. butter-hams

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