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Definition of Nuthatch
1. Noun. Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects.
Generic synonyms: Oscine, Oscine Bird
Group relationships: Family Sittidae, Sittidae
Specialized synonyms: European Nuthatch, Sitta Europaea, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta Canadensis, Sitta Carolinensis, White-breasted Nuthatch
Definition of Nuthatch
1. n. Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmæa), and others, are American.
Definition of Nuthatch
1. Noun. Any of various small passerine birds from the family ''Sittidae'' found throughout the Northern hemisphere that have the unusual ability to climb down trees head first. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nuthatch
1. a small bird [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Nuthatch
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuthatch
Literary usage of Nuthatch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"LIHTE and mellow is the ringing "ank, ank" note of the nuthatch, and why need we
allude to its nasal timbre! While it is not a strictly musical note, ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1898)
"THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF THE WHITE-BELLIED nuthatch AND BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE.1 BY E.
DWIGHT SANDERSON. THE value of our common birds as insect-destroyers has ..."
3. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"that he has never been able to see this bird about Bedford in the winter season,
and that he, in consequence, believes the nuthatch to be migratory in that ..."
4. Birds of Village and Field: A Bird Book for Beginners by Florence Merriam Bailey (1898)
"The nuthatch is as quaint and droll as the Black-cap is plump and friendly, ...
The nuthatch spends most of his time moving about, head down, on tree trunks ..."
5. Field Book of Wild Birds and Their Music: A Description of the Character and by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1921)
"The White-breasted nuthatch is a charming little symphony in modest gray, ...
The Red- breasted nuthatch is a much smaller bird, but 4.55 inches long, ..."
6. The Smaller British Birds: With Descriptions of Their Nests, Eggs, Habits, Etc. by Henry B. Adams (1894)
"Yarrell says, "the nuthatch creeps or runs along so smoothly that its motions
... The nuthatch usually constructs its nest in a hollow in the trunk 2 ir ..."
7. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"Tail short, flexible, broad und nearly even. OUR well-known nuthatch was long
considered the sole ..."
8. Birds of California: An Introduction to More Than Three Hundred Common Birds by Irene Grosvenor Wheelock (1903)
"THE Red-breasted nuthatch is the same familiar slate- gray bird in California
that he is in the oak groves of Illinois or the forests of Maine. ..."
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