bassia butyracea

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bassia butyracea - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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  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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