Alternativa stavningar

Uttal

  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈbɪtən/
  • US:
    • IPA: /ˈbɪtərn/

Ingen översättning hittades i den valda målspråket.

Bittern verkar vara ett sammansatt ord. Prova att söka dess delar separat:

Liknande ord

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. Several bird species in the Botaurinae subfamily of the heron family Ardeidae.
  2. The liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine).
  3. (archaic) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.

Exempel

  • It is a great rock or cliff on the loneliest part of the mountains, and, … is known by the name of the Garden Rock. Near the foot of it is a small lake, the haunt of the solitary bittern, with water-snakes basking in the sun on the leaves of the pond-lilies which lie on the surface.

Böjningsformer

Pluralbitterns

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