English

Noun

butterine ‎(countable and uncountable, plural butterines)

1. A substance prepared from animal fat with some other ingredients intermixed, as an imitation of butter.
   • "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?" — "Adulteration of Fruit Preserves and Other Foods" by R. C. Kedzie in Twenty-fourth annual report of the secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1894

References

• butterine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

• intertube