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butyrous

 [bu´tĭ-rus]
resembling butter.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

bu·tyr·ous

(byū'ti-rŭs),
Denoting a tissue or bacterial growth of butterlike consistency.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

bu·tyr·ous

(byū'tir-ŭs)
Denoting a tissue or bacterial growth of butterlike consistency.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
References in periodicals archive
Colonies were 1-2 mm in diameter, gray, smooth, and butyrous. A Gram stain of these colonies identified gramvariable, pleomorphic coccobacilli that were negative for catalase, oxidase, urease, and citrate, and did not produce indole or reduce nitrate.
On next day the type of growth was smooth, round, convex, butyrous and violet-coloured on all three plates.
Ananas comosus White deposit, fruit Creamish white become spongy with colonies, opaque, gas production smooth, convex, entire and butyrous Ananas comosus Whitish foamy-like Bluish-brown colour growth with sunken appearance, a long depression branched thread-like filament of cell called hyphae Citrus sinensis Dark brown discoloration Black colonies with sunken spots Fruits white edges become spongy with gas production Citrus sinensis Fruit becoming spongy Creamish white with gas production colonies, opaque, Sunken spots smooth, convex, entire and butyrous Lycopersicon Water soaked wrinkled Whitish becoming esculentum appearance and brown black with depression age Lycopersicon Water soaked wrinkled Colony gray becoming esculentum appearance and Brownish-gray with depression age.
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