otoba fat

English

Noun

otoba fat (uncountable)

1. A colourless buttery substance obtained from the fruit of Otoba novogranatensis (formerly considered a species of nutmeg tree, Myristica otoba).

Synonyms

• otoba wax, American nutmeg butter

See also

• Otoba
• otobain

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “otoba fat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)