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Definition of Butter-print
1. Noun. Tall annual herb or subshrub of tropical Asia having velvety leaves and yellow flowers and yielding a strong fiber; naturalized in southeastern Europe and United States.
Generic synonyms: Mallow
Group relationships: Abutilon, Genus Abutilon
Literary usage of Butter-print
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1905)
"... exercised the various trades of Taylor, Clogger and butter-print maker.
Southey probably derived his information from local tradition. ..."
2. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1878)
"On the tin is constructed a series of ledges, on which rest the shelves for
supporting the butter (print butter) ; it is used without shelves for roll ..."
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