(n.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
(a.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
(a.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
Example Sentences:
(1) For the first time in 30 years, and possibly longer, fresh water from deep underground is not filling the ditches and reedbeds of the 40-hectare reserve known for its bitterns, water voles and marsh harriers.
(2) In many herons and bitterns, only one cecum is present, and in the secretary bird there are two pairs of ceca.
(3) Winners and losers Going: Species facing "severe" threats in England Red squirrel Northern bluefin tuna Natterjack toad Common skate Alpine foxtail Kittiwake Grey plover Shrill carder bumblebee Recovering: Recent conservation success stories Pole cat Large blue butterfly Red kite Ladybird spider Pink meadowcap Sand lizard Pool frog Bittern
(4) Visitors understandably make a beeline for the big-name big game parks like Yala, but sharing sunrise over the lagoon with Indian pond herons, black and yellow bitterns, a dazzling purple swamp hen, black cormorants, a peacock surveying the scene from a rocky perch and even a small crocodile, had its own magic.
(5) You may find bitterns making their basso profundo hoot, or you could see otters, dragonflies and adders.
(6) All is limpid observation, gliding from one bittern to another, until the startling remark that fading colour enhanced the flowers' "sincerity", as if they have been pressing a case.
(7) Bitterns had almost gone extinct in this country, and they’re now breeding out there.” One of Trevelyan’s students from Ghana will talk about how he and his colleagues managed to save the Togo slippery frog from extinction .
(8) There were just 11 male bitterns in Britain in 1997, but this summer 47 males made their booming call in Somerset alone .
(9) Higher water levels at the Otmoor reserve in Oxfordshire have made reed beds wetter, giving birds such as bitterns a better chance of nesting.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Malta allows 9,798 hunters to shoot up to 16,000 turtle dove and quail each spring but Packham found injured and dead birds illegally shot last week included swifts, yellow-legged gulls, kestrels and a little bittern.
(11) That will impact on the fish that feed on them and the birds, like the bitterns, which eat the fish."
(12) Bittern single-copy DNA has evolved at a rate approximately 25% faster, and boat-billed heron (Cochearius) and rufescent tiger heron (Tigrisoma lineatum) DNA has evolved approximately 19% slower, than that of day and night herons.
(13) The river is at first open and sunny, but becomes wooded and secretive after two miles, before winding through the reedy lowlands of the Stodmarsh nature reserve , good for spotting bittern, marsh harriers and water vole.
(14) Consider these sentences from near the beginning of A Week: We glided noiselessly down the stream, occasionally driving a pickerel from the covert of the pads, or a bream from her nest, and the smaller bittern now and then sailed away on sluggish wings from some recess in the shore, or the larger lifted itself out of the long grass at our approach, and carried its precious legs away to deposit them in a place of safety.
(15) Nycticorax nycticorax, Ardea cinerea, Egretta garzetta, and Egretta intermedia were naturally infected with Clinostomum complanatum (Trematoda: Clinostomatidae) among fourteen wild herons, seven wild egrets and one wild bittern evaluated at the Veterinary Hospital of Tottori University, Tottori, Japan.
Heron
Definition:
(n.) Any wading bird of the genus Ardea and allied genera, of the family Ardeidae. The herons have a long, sharp bill, and long legs and toes, with the claw of the middle toe toothed. The common European heron (Ardea cinerea) is remarkable for its directly ascending flight, and was formerly hunted with the larger falcons.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pairs of great blue heron eggs were collected from three British Columbia colonies with low, intermediate, and high levels of dioxin contamination: Nicomekl, Vancouver, and Crofton, respectively.
(2) Austrobilharzia terrigalensis from Egretta sacra and Larus novaehollandiae at Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef, is described.
(3) Chicks of great blue herons (Ardea herodias) from four heronaries located near South St. Paul, Royalton, and Wabasha, Minnesota, and La Crosse, Wisconsin, were analyzed for organochlorines, Highest mean wet-weight concentrations, 6.43 ppm PCBs.
(4) In many herons and bitterns, only one cecum is present, and in the secretary bird there are two pairs of ceca.
(5) Jake and Dinos Chapman's Hell, Tracey Emin's tent, as well as many other works owned by Charles Saatchi and – saddest of all – a large chunk of the estate of the painter Patrick Heron, were consumed.
(6) The Heron tower, which stands in Bishopsgate next to Liverpool Street station, has just opened, while several other towers are under development, including the Pinnacle, which is also in Bishopsgate.
(7) Richard Thompson, Robyn Hitchcock, Danny Thompson and Dr Strangely Strange will be on hand to play and sing them, as will Heron and Palmer.
(8) The prosobranch snail Planaxis sulcatus is the natural intermediate host of A. terrigalensis at Heron Island.
(9) Freud's exceptional ability to convey tactile information is evident in early drawings, especially those of gorse sprigs, a dead heron and a bearded Christian Bérard in a dressing gown.
(10) Marked differences in levles of viremia were not observed among Black-crowned Night Herons, Great Egrets, or Snowy Egrets.
(11) In the 1950s, Scott was known as a pioneer of abstraction in Britain and exhibited alongside Ben Nicholson, Terry Frost , Victor Pasmore and Patrick Heron .
(12) A new hepadnavirus (designated heron hepatitis B virus [HHBV]) has been isolated; this virus is endemic in grey herons (Ardea cinerea) in Germany and closely related to duck hepatitis B virus (DHBV) by morphology of viral particles and size of the genome and of the major viral envelope and core proteins.
(13) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
(14) That, at least, is what many people have insisted from antiquity on – while prompting at the same time all kinds of counter-claims that other species share our expression of mirth (monkeys and, most recently, rats being the most common candidates, though there is one suggestion, in an ancient Jewish commentary, that for some reason Aristotle thought herons were laughers too).
(15) These observations suggest that fish frozen in brine is unsuitable food for hand-rearing of young herons.
(16) Because E. tarda and E. agglomerans were the only species isolated from the heron esophagus, the intimate bacterial-worm association in the heron mouth may be due specifically to Achromobacter sp.
(17) And the Olympic torch completed its remarkable journey, the penultimate stage undertaken from Hampton Court to Tower Bridge on the prow of the gilded Gloriana, at the head of a flotilla of rowboats that drew curious glances from the cormorants, herons and great crested grebes in their haunts by Richmond Bridge.
(18) It's home to pelicans, cormorants, herons and dozens of other bird species, along with the carp, trout and eel that end up on the area's dinner plates.
(19) The 30-bed Heron Unit at Feltham Young Offenders Institution is funded by the Conservative mayor and offers prisoners extra support in a bid to curb reoffending after their release.
(20) Brain ChE activity of nestling snowy egrets (Egretta thula) and black-crowned night-herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) collected in one colony each from Rhode Island, Texas and California (USA) also increased significantly with age and did not differ among individuals from different nests or colonies.