Definitions for butyric

butyric bu·tyr·ic

Spelling: [byoo-tir-ik]
IPA: /byuˈtɪr ɪk/

Butyric is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in butyric (bcirtuy).

Definitions for butyric

adjective

  1. pertaining to or derived from butyric acid.

Origin of butyric

1820-30; Latin būtȳr(um) butter + -ic

Examples for butyric

Precisely the reverse of all this occurs with the vibrios of butyric acid.

Concerning the chemical origin of butyric acid there is yet some doubt.

During these changes a small quantity of gas is disengaged, no butyric acid is formed, and but little acetic or lactic acids.

Most of the butyric class of bacteria are spore-bearing, and hence they are frequently present in boiled or sterilized milk.

And of late years a number of other compounds, such as butyric Acid, and others, have been added to the list.

The fces of animals that live on vegetables contain neither excretin, butyric acid, nor cholesterin.

The souring of milk, the formation of butyric acid, the making of vinegar from cider, are all examples of fermentative changes.

The ferment of butyric acid he proved to be an organism of a different kind.

By passing hydrochloric acid gas into an alcoholic solution of butyric acid, and purifying the product from free acid.

This lactic ferment, these butyric vibrios, whence do they come?

Word Value for butyric
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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