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单词 bittern
释义
bit·tern 1 (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.]
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