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Bittern

noun
1.
Relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes.



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"Bittern" Quotes from Famous Books



... capital astringent, these containing much tannin; also for its fruit, which is supplied with malic and citric acids, pectin, and albumen. Blackberries go often by the name of "bumblekites," from "bumble," the cry of the bittern, and kyte, a Scotch word for belly; the name bumblekite being applied, says Dr. Prior, "from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies of children who eat the fruit too greedily." "Rubus" is from ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie


Words linked to "Bittern" :   Botaurus stellaris, Botaurus lentiginosus, heron, least bittern, Ixobrychus exilis, American bittern, European bittern, stake driver


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