Definitions for bittern

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bittern bit·tern

Spelling: [bit-ern]

IPA: /ˈbɪt ərn/

Bittern is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 135 anagrams from letters in bittern (beinrtt).

Definitions for bittern

noun

1. any of several tawny brown herons that inhabit reedy marshes, as Botaurus lentiginosus (American bittern) of North America, and B. stellaris, of Europe.
2. any of several small herons of the genus Ixobrychus, as I. exilis (least bittern) of temperate and tropical North and South America.
3. a bitter solution remaining in salt making after the salt has crystallized out of seawater or brine, used as a source of bromides, iodides, and certain other salts.

Origin of bittern

1510-20; bitter, bittor bittern + -n (perhaps by association with heron), Middle English bito(u)r, butur, boto(u)r Anglo-French bytore, Anglo-French, Old French buto

Examples for bittern

The very cry of the bittern adds to this atmosphere of desolation.

Its called The bittern because it booms people, so George says.

Other hawks were then flown at various game, mallard and crane and bittern.

Later in the spring, she and Elisabeth saw another kind of heron, an American bittern, skulking in some grass by a swamp.

I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water.

It is conspicuously slenderer and shorter than in the bittern.

Your father has realized the wish of the Psalmist, said The bittern man.

Personally I do not know a bittern from an olive-backed thrush.

I will alto make it a possession for the bittern, and pools for water.

Willughby thought that the so-called night-raven was the bittern.