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noun

a graceful South American wading bird, Eurypyga helias, related to the cranes and rails, having variegated plumage.

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Origin of sun bittern

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby sun bittern

sun bear, sunbed, Sunbelt, sunberry, sunbird, sun bittern, sun blind, sunblock, sunbonnet, sunbow, sunbreak

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There was deep brown flesh, and bronze flesh, and pallid white flesh, and flesh turned red from the hot sun.
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The nanas and poppies and grannies and grampses who flocked there to roast in the sun.
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He likes when the sun glances off it from the top, because it looks like the black marlin.
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She had to break the news to William that The Sun had the story.
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Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
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It was very warm, and for a while they did nothing but exchange remarks about the heat, the sun, the glare.
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Only the petrol tins they took for water right and left of their pathway up the cliff; huge diamonds in the evening sun.
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I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
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British Dictionary definitions for sun bittern

sun bittern

noun

a cranelike bird, Eurypyga helias, of tropical American forests, having a greyish plumage with orange and brown wings: family Eurypygidae, order Gruiformes (cranes, rails, etc)

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