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noun relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes
originFrom Middle English bitour, botor, from Old French butor, from Gallo-Roman *butitaurus, a blend of Latin būtiō (“bittern”) and taurus (“bull, ox”).
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