butyric
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9.3
- adjective
- /bjuˈtɪrɪk/
- Specialized
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butírico
- The cheese had a distinct flavor due to the presence of butyric acid, which is commonly found in dairy products.
- butyric acid
He put together a cracking blend of scatter, butyric, valeric and caproic acids.
- He put together a cracking blend of scatter, butyric, valeric and caproic acids.
Examples
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He put together a cracking blend of scatter, butyric, valeric and caproic acids.
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It smelled of butyric acid and dextrorotatory sucrose, and also very faintly of Canoe.
Fiction book (1999) -
OK, so people worked it up and found butyric acid.
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This stands for its GABA, and it stands for gamma amino butyric acid.
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Blue cheese and pineapple match because they share butyric acid and methyl pental ketone.
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Sweat ran down his legs, his neck itched, and his nose stung from smoke and the butyric anhydride he used on the fume board to drive the bees from the frames of honey he pulled from the hives.
Fiction book (1993) -
During the fermentation process, certain bacteria produce butyric acid, leading to the characteristic odor of spoiled butter.
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The chemist explained how butyric acid contributes to the rich taste of many aged cheeses.
Compounds
- Specialized
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6.8
An acid in fats that has a very strong unpleasant smell often found in spoiled butter
How Smelly
Surface Forms
Morphology
butyric = butter (semi-transparent) = butyr + ic
Etymologically related to butter/butyric acid but formed from the non‑standalone combining form 'butyr-' plus the technical adjectival suffix '-ic', so a general learner knowing 'butter' is unlikely to reliably infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word butyric comes from an old word for butter, Latin butyrum, which is also the source of our common word butter. So butyric means 'relating to butter', and it is used for the acid that gives butter and spoiled fat their strong smell.