butyraceous

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Mary Gilliland of Fort Worth hesitated on butyraceous but managed to get by, and redheaded Dana Bennett, 13, of Denver, tossed off ovoviviparous as if it were cat.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the heavier hydrocarbons begin to come over the receiver is changed and the butyraceous distillate is filtered through a long column of well dried animal charcoal.

From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by Lewis, William T.

Adj. unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous†; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous†, pinguid, lardaceous†; slippery.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

L. E. D.—In distillation with water, it yields a small portion of a butyraceous oil, whose flavour exactly resembles that of the roses.

From The Botanist's Companion, Volume II by Salisbury, William

The butyraceous oil produced by the distillation of roses for making rose-water in this country is valueless as a perfume; and the real otto was scarcely known in British commerce before the present century.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 by Various