bit·tern 1 
(bĭtərn)
(bĭtərn)n.
Any of several wading birds of the genera Botaurus and Ixobrychus, having mottled brownish plumage and, in most species, a deep booming cry in the male.
[Alteration (perhaps influenced by TERN1) of Middle English bitour, from Old French butor, possibly from Vulgar Latin *buti-taurus : Latin būtiō, buzzard + Latin taurus, bull (after its cry); see tauro- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
- put one's finger on
- put one's finger on
- put (one's) foot down
- put one's foot down
- put one's foot in mouth
- put (one's) foot in (one's) mouth
- put one's foot in one's mouth
- put one's house in order
- put one's money where mouth is
- put (one's) money where (one's) mouth is
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- put (one's) nose to the grindstone
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- put (one's) shoulder to the wheel
- put one's shoulder to the wheel
- Putonghua
- Pu tong hua
- put on the block
- put on the dog
- put on the map
- put (or set)(one's) house in order
- put (or set) (one's) house in order
- put out
- putout
- put out