Nuthatch Definition

nŭthăch
nuthatches
noun
nuthatches
Any of various small passerine birds (family Sittidae) with a sharp beak and a short tail: they typically search for insects by moving down tree trunks headfirst.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Nuthatch

Noun

Singular:
nuthatch
Plural:
nuthatches

Origin of Nuthatch

  • Middle English notehache note nut nut hache hatchet (from Old French) (perhaps of Germanic origin, from its habit of wedging nuts in bark and hacking them open)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nuthatch Sentence Examples

  • White not only notes the homes and ways, the times and seasons, of plants and animals - comparing, for instance, the different ways in which the squirrel, the fieldmouse and the nuthatch eat their hazel-nuts - or watches the migrations of birds, which were then only beginning to be properly recorded or understood, but he knows more than any other observer until Charles Darwin about the habits and the usefulness of the earthworms, and is certain that plants distil dew and do not merely condense it.

  • We set off along the picturesquely named Devils Gorge, having already seen nuthatch on the feeders by the visitor center.

  • I did not see several species I saw in winter such as great rock nuthatch, desert finch and somber tit.

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