bittern

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
2. noun The liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine).
3. noun The saline substance added to soy milk to coagulate it as a primary step in the production of tofu.
4. noun A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.

Similar words

ecological ecology bittur ardeid pond heron sun-bittern sunbittern heron night heron great blue heron

Often followed by

and is in was shall ende or ixobrychus botaurus

Word family

bitterns