1) Another marsh bird 2) Bog bird 3) Found in marshes 4) French word used in English 5) Heron 6) Heron relative 7) Marsh heron 8) Small heron
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1) Heron
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Bitterns are a classification of birds in the heron family, Ardeidae, a family of wading birds. Species named bitterns tend to be the shorter-necked, often more secretive members of this family. They were called hæferblæte in Old English; the word `bittern` came to English from Old French butor, itself from Gallo-Roman butitaurus, a portmantea.....
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[salt] Bittern is the liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine). It may be rich in magnesium sulfate and magnesium chloride. ...
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small heron
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• (a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. • (n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. • (a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulter...
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any of 12 species of solitary marsh birds of the subfamily Botaurinae, family Ardeidae (order Ciconiiformes), allied to the herons (subfamily ... [2 related articles]
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very bitter-tasting solution that remains after evaporation and crystallization of sodium chloride (table salt) from brines and seawater. It contains ... [1 related articles]
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<zoology> A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. ... The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris. It makes, during the brooding season, a noise called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming. The American bittern is B. Lentiginosus, and is also called stake-driver and meadow hen. See Stake-dri...
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Bit'tern noun [ Middle English
bitoure ,
betore ,
bitter , from French
butor ; of unknown origin.]
(Zoology) A wading bird of the genus
Botaurus , allied to the herons, of various species. » The common European bittern is
Botaurus stellaris . It...
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Bittern is a general name for grallatorial birds of the genus Botaurus of the subfamily Botaurinae. They are wading birds related to the heron, but with shorter necks, stouter bodies and variegated brown colouration. They live in marshes and reedy swamps where they are solitary and nocturnal, feeding on frogs, small fish, mice, crayfish and other a...
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Bittern is the syrupy residue from evaporated sea-water after the common salt has been taken out of it. It is used in the preparation of Epsom salts (sulphate of magnesia), of Glauber's salt (sulphate of soda), and contains also chloride of magnesium, iodine, and bromine.
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The USS Bittern was an American Admirable Class minesweeper of 625 tons displacement launched in 1944. The USS Bittern was powered by diesel engines providing a top speed of 14.5 knots and carried a complement of 104. She was armed with one 3 inch dual-purpose gun and four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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n] - relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry
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Waste solution of magnesium salts and bromides from the preparation of salt from sea-water by evaporation.
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noun relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
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Any of several species of small herons, in particular the common bittern
Botaurus stellaris of Europe and Asia. It is shy, stoutly built, buff-coloured, speckled with black and tawny brown, with a long bill and a loud, booming call. Its habit of holding its neck and bill in a vertical position conceals it among the reeds, whe...
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any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosusof North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe. · any of several small herons of the genus Ixobrychus, as I. exilisof temperate and tropical North and South America.
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