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shea butters

shea butters is the plural of shea butter.

Meaning of shea butter

Noun

shea butter (usually uncountable, plural shea butters)

  1. (usually) A slightly yellowish or ivory-colored natural fat extracted from fruit of the shea tree (Vitellaria paradoxa) by crushing and boiling, widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer and an emollient, as a cooking oil in West Africa, and sometimes used in the chocolate industry as a substitute for cocoa butter.
    • About two o'clock in the afternoon, a sort of hasty pudding, with a little Shea butter, is the common meal; but the supper constitutes the principal repast, and is seldom ready before midnight.1799, Mungo Park, chapter XXI, in Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, page 279

Questions about shea butters

What is shea butters the plural of?
Shea butters is the plural of shea butter.

Words near shea butters in the dictionary

  1. she/he
  2. she/her
  3. shea
  4. shea butter
  5. shea butter tree
  6. shea butters
  7. shea tree
  8. shea trees
  9. Shead
  10. sheading
  11. sheadings

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