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Nuthatch n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea), and others, are American.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... which moved about him invisible. In a thicket of cedar and scrub willow near the bed of a stream, he encountered one of those strangely assorted bands of woods-creatures which are always cruising it through the country. He heard the cheerful little chickadee; he saw the grave nuthatch with its appearance of a total lack of humor; he glimpsed a black-and-white woodpecker or so, and was reviled by a ribald blue jay. Already the wilderness was taking its ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

Words linked to "Nuthatch" : Sittidae, Sitta canadensis, family Sittidae, oscine, oscine bird, nutcracker, Sitta carolinensis, European nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, Sitta europaea