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2 definitions found 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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