bittern
/bit-ern/US // ˈbɪt ərn //UK // (ˈbɪtən) //
卤虫,卤鱼,卤卤虫,卤卤豚
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : 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.
Examples
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.
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