clarified butter

1. 1.

   butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids

   Synonymsdrawn butter

   Broaderbutter

   Narrowerghee

Questions about clarified butter

What does clarified butter mean?

clarified butter means "butter made clear by heating and removing the sediment of milk solids".

What is another word for clarified butter?

Close synonyms include drawn butter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is clarified butter a common word?

clarified butter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.