Margarine /(mär"jŭ*rĭn; mär`jŭ*rēn")/
Mar·ga·rine
Margarine
n.
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A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.
The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not.
- Margarin.