单词 | sittine |
释义 | sittinen.adj. Ornithology. A member of a group of arboreal passerine birds which comprises the true nuthatches (genus Sitta). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > [noun] > family Sittidae > genus Sitta sittine1829 1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 345 The Sittines [Fr. les Sittines]..differ only in having the bill a little more compressed. 1844 S. Lee Elements Nat. Hist. 206 Sittines.—Beak more compressed; lower edge more convex. B. adj. Belonging to or characteristic of the group of arboreal passerine birds comprising the true nuthatches (genus Sitta). Now rare.The group is now either equivalent to the family Sittidae, or distinguished as a subfamily Sittinae when other birds are included in the family. ΚΠ 1840 W. MacGillivray Man. Brit. Ornithol. I. 216 (heading) Family XXVI. Sittinae. Sittine Birds, or Nuthatches. 1898 Ibis 4 209 The feet do not show any important features, being quite Sittine. 1961 O. L. Austin Birds of World 239 The sittine nuthatches lay white eggs speckled with red-brown. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1829 |
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