See bittern on Wiktionary
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"A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer."
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"taxonomic": "Zonerodius heliosylus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Ixobrychus minutus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Ixobrychus novaezelandiae",
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{
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{
"taxonomic": "Ixobrychus eurhythmus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Ixobrychus cinnamomeus",
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{
"taxonomic": "Ixobrychus sturmii",
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"sense": "bird of the subfamily Botaurinae",
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "bird of the subfamily Botaurinae",
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"code": "ja",
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "bird of the subfamily Botaurinae",
"word": "알락해오라기"
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"code": "lv",
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"code": "lt",
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"sense": "bird of the subfamily Botaurinae",
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"code": "fa",
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"code": "gd",
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "yánlǔ",
"sense": "salt substance used in tofu",
"word": "鹽滷 /盐卤"
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"code": "ja",
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"word": "苦汁"
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "nigari",
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"word": "滷汁"
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"code": "ko",
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"sense": "salt substance used in tofu",
"word": "간수"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (05fdf6b and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.