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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Butyric \Bu*tyr"ic\, a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to or derived from butter.
{Butyric acid}, {C3H7.CO2H}, an acid found in butter; an
oily, limpid fluid, having the smell of rancid butter, and
an acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of
ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in
distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal
butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
butyric
adj : relating to or producing butyric acid
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