Butyraceous

Today’s Best Word Ever is butyraceous: like butter.

A buttery adjective, from Latin, butyrum, “butter” + E -aceous, a suffix  meaning “belonging to, of the nature of,” from Latin, -aceus.


While he and Bambi grazed in the field, Buck looked up just

long enough to enthuse, “These buttercups are butyraceous!”

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