butyric

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: bu=tyr=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

butyric, a. 

 Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.  [1913 Webster]

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.