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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