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Definition of Bitterns

Bittern
Bittern Bit"tern, n. [OE. bitoure, betore, bitter, fr. F. butor; of unknown origin.] (Zo["o]l.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. Note: 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-driver. Note: The name is applied to other related birds, as the least bittern (Ardetta exilis), and the sun bittern.
Bittern
Bittern Bit"tern, n. [From Bitter, a.] 1. The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains. 2. A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. --Cooley.

Meaning of Bitterns from wikipedia

- Bitterns are birds belonging to the subfamily Botaurinae of the heron family Ardeidae. Bitterns tend to be shorter-necked and more secretive than other...
- Bittern (pl. bitterns), or nigari, is the salt solution formed when halite (table salt) precipitates from seawater or brines. Bitterns contain magnesium...
- south Wales. These were the first bitterns to breed in the county in some 250 years. In the 21st century, bitterns are regular winter visitors to the...
- refer to: Bittern, Victoria, a town in Australia Bittern railway station, on the Stony Point line Bittern Lake, a village in Alberta, Canada Bittern Line a...
- New Zealand Our Changing World programme "Booming Bitterns", 3 February 2016 Australasian bitterns discussed on Radio NZ Critter of the W****, 4 Dec 2015...
- government area. Bittern recorded a po****tion of 4,276 at the 2021 census. Bittern is part of an urban enclave on Western Port comprising Bittern, Hastings...
- The American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus) is a species of wading bird in the heron family. It has a Nearctic distribution, breeding in Canada and the...
- Kratzer, Daniel; Liundy, Vernon; Ławicki, Łukasz (January 2018). "Two Dwarf Bitterns on Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, in winter of 2017/18". Dutch Birding...
- breeders migrate as far south as the Eastern Cape and Transvaal. Little Bitterns were once widespread in Central Europe. In the meantime it is a poorly...
- or bitterns rather than herons. Members of the genus Botaurus are referred to as bitterns, and, together with the zigzag heron, or zigzag bittern, in...