butterine
butterine noun: an imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
Noun
butterine (countable and uncountable, plural butterines)
- An imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
- If a man sells you anything as good as what you ask for, but yet entirely different, are you cheated? […] [A] man may say his butterine is as pure and wholesome as genuine butter, and therefore why not sell it as butter?1894, R. C. Kedzie, “Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods”, in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan
butterine meaning in Tamil
butterine in Tamil
- செயற்கை வெண்ணெய்
Forms of butterine
| plural | butterines |
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Origin of butterine
From butter + -ine.
Questions about butterine
- What does butterine mean?
- Butterine means an imitation butter prepared from animal fat with other ingredients.
- What is butterine in Tamil?
- Butterine in Tamil is செயற்கை வெண்ணெய். See Butterine meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is butterine?
- Butterine is a noun.
- What is the plural of butterine?
- The plural of butterine is butterines.
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