Crossword-Solution: BITTERN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bittern | n. | A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species. |
| Bittern | 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. |
| Bittern | a. | A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BITTERN | anagram | BRITTEN |
We have 26 clues for the answer “BITTERN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Brown heron | 1 answer |
| wading marsh bird with a booming call | 1 answer |
| Small heron. | 1 answer |
| Nocturnal swamp bird. | 1 answer |
| Marsh heron | 1 answer |
| Marsh denizen that sounds resentful? | 1 answer |
| Booming bird | 1 answer |
| Bird that emits a booming noise. | 1 answer |
| Bird sometimes called a stake driver | 1 answer |
| Another marsh bird | 1 answer |
| meadow hen | 2 answers |
| It's a small heron | 2 answers |
| Heron relative | 3 answers |
| marsh hen | 3 answers |
| Marshland bird | 3 answers |
| Bog bird | 4 answers |
| Swamp bird | 5 answers |
| Heron | 8 answers |
| bird Marsh | 10 answers |
| CENTRAL American bird | 23 answers |
| Marsh bird | 28 answers |
| Wading bird | 42 answers |
| American bird | 51 answers |
| AMERICAN | 58 answers |
| Australian bird | 60 answers |
| Oil Producer | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BITTERN (5)
When they went once more into the long hall with the windows and the mirrors, yellow evening was dropping over the waters and the willowy banks; and a bittern sounded in the distance like an elf upon his dwarfish drum.
Knowall when the whole tale is told: forsooth I can lead thee thither; but tell me, what shall I do of valiant deeds at the Long Pools? for there is no fire-drake nor effit, nay, nor no giant, nor guileful dwarf, nought save mallard and coot, heron and bittern; yea, and ague-shivers to boot." Simon looked sourly on him and said: "Thou are bidden to go with me, young man, or gainsay the Marshal.
The name is applied to other related birds, as the least bittern (Ardetta exilis), and the sun bittern.
Chill evenings the mallard drakes cry continually from the glassy pools, the bittern's hollow boom rolls along the water paths.
Birds flew hither and thither (the names of every one of which Xavier knew),--the whistling papabot, the mournful bittern (garde-soleil), and the night-heron (grosbeck), who stood like a sentinel on the points.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, WP.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).