What's the difference between buttery and butyraceous?

Buttery


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities, consistence, or appearance, of butter.
  • (n.) An apartment in a house where butter, milk and other provisions are kept.
  • (n.) A room in some English colleges where liquors, fruit, and refreshments are kept for sale to the students.
  • (n.) A cellar in which butts of wine are kept.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Talk rarely tends this way with an actor who’s found a good slot, more inclined as a result to play safe and spray out buttery praise in all directions, at co-stars, crew, studios, cheque-signers.
  • (2) There is also an excellent – and blissfully long – section on teatime: every possible cake and bun is here in all their sugary, buttery glory.
  • (3) Lined up alongside green, paper-skinned pistachios or buttery pecans, almonds – anaemic, lozenge-shaped, creamily bland – can seem rather dull.
  • (4) We're currently planning on going to LouMalnati's for the buttery crust August 21, 2013 Helen Knox (@lebowski2020) @GuardianTravel where is best place for evening rooftop bar view of Chicago, pref for mojitos?
  • (5) These buttery potato scones glisten on my plate like Grecian tiles.
  • (6) Just lovely acid-sweet jam and an explosion of buttery pastry.
  • (7) If you're going to opine about cheese, it's best to know your washed rind (stinky) from your bloomy rind (buttery).
  • (8) "The once-great Paul Gascoigne was already so good by 1988 that he could score in north London derbies sans footwear," says Mark Buttery.
  • (9) I was really spoilt for choice, torn between a lentil and watercress salad with an unusual citrussy dressing, and buttery purple sprouting broccoli on toast, but on a sunny day, thejameskitchen's lively, punchy green soup seemed so perfectly spring-like I couldn't resist.
  • (10) The sausages were naturally top drawer, but that glossy, buttery, roughly worked mash, properly seasoned and brilliantly laced with sweet caramelised onions, was awesome.
  • (11) You can see how that works with a classic Kiwi sauvignon blanc, which has a snappy, pungent, faintly sweaty greenness to match the same character in asparagus, but also has an incisive citric crispness to cut through the almost buttery richness of avocado.
  • (12) A breakfast of wild mushrooms and spinach on good sourdough delivered a persuasive hillock of buttery, thoroughly seasoned funghi.
  • (13) I serve mine for breakfast with a runny egg on top, or for dinner with buttery cabbage and succulent chicken thighs.
  • (14) The buttery sauce is flavoured with fennel and coriander seeds, orange zest and a good slug of Marsala.
  • (15) People favour risottos now, but before there was risotto, there was pilaff: buttery rice mixed with onions, garlic and tomatoes that have first been fried in olive oil.
  • (16) Unfortunately, where the homemade stuff is rich, tender and buttery, shop‑bought tends to be pallid and disappointingly bland.
  • (17) I opt for the buttery Brazilian Agua Preta latte with a shot of agave syrup.
  • (18) Likewise, the ASA decided against banning the third most complained about ad, also by Unilever, an animated TV and online ad for Flora Buttery margarine featuring two siblings wrestling.
  • (19) A year-long investigation “When I started out I had never worked one of these cases and had no idea what to do,” says Finley, an amiable man with a buttery Georgia drawl.
  • (20) It was a cheap thing, but a pleasingly buttery colour with knobbly legs around which I used to curl my bare feet when eating breakfast.

Butyraceous


Definition:

  • (a.) Having the qualities of butter; resembling butter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Morphological investigations indicated that the colonies of a highly resistant S. haemolyticus clone were smaller and more butyraceous in consistency than those of the parent strain.

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