bittern / ˈbɪt ərn /
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bittern 的定义
n. 名词 noun- any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus, of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
- any of several small herons of the genus Ixobrychus, as I. exilis, of temperate and tropical North and South America.
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- Later in the spring, she and Elisabeth saw another kind of heron, an American bittern, skulking in some grass by a swamp.
- The great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct.
- It may, therefore, be as well to point out the principal distinctions between this bird and the Common Bittern last mentioned.
- He bolted half a mile with the first boom of the bittern, and his hat lifted with every yelp of the sheitpoke.
- Along the creeks and river sides, and in the wet savannas, six species of the bittern will engage your attention.
- Within three paddle-lengths of my boat, in a patch of dark that must be a nest, stood my least bittern.