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butterfats

butterfats is the plural 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 butterfats

alternative formbutter fats
alternative formbutter-fats

Questions about butterfats

What is butterfats the plural of?
Butterfats is the plural of butterfat.

Words near butterfats in the dictionary

  1. Butterey
  2. butterface
  3. butterfaced
  4. butterfaces
  5. butterfat
  6. butterfats
  7. butterfatty
  8. Butterfield
  9. Butterfields
  10. butterfin
  11. butterfinger

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