noun. A clarified semifluid butter used especially in South Asian cooking.

noun. The solid fat obtained from the seeds of Madhuca butyracea, a tree found in northern India. It is used as a food, and also for an ointment, and in making soap and candles.

noun. In the East Indies, a liquid clarified butter made from the milk of cows and buffaloes, coagulated before churning.

noun. Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil.

noun. A type of clarified butter used in South Asian cooking; usli ghee.

noun. vegetable oil for cooking.

noun. clarified butter used in Indian cookery

"He said it was made by frying shredded carrots in ghee and then simmering in whole milk with sugar till is formed a thick mass and left the sides of the pot."