nuthatch
/ˈnʌthatʃ
/noun
A small songbird with a stiffened tail, which climbs up and down tree trunks and feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.
- Family Sittidae and genus Sitta: several species, including the widespread (Eurasian) nuthatch (S. europaea), with a grey back, black eyestripe, and white or buff underparts.
- Plenty of birds of winter still mob Ann's bird feeders; chickadees, juncos, sparrows, woodpeckers, nuthatches, goldfinch, and doves are in no short supply.
- They have disappeared from our view, as have bullfinches and tree sparrows, nuthatches and marsh tits.
Origin
Middle English: from nut + obsolete hatch (related to hack1), from the bird's habit of hacking with the beak at nuts wedged in a crevice.
- macroclimate
- macroclimatic
- macrocollon
- macrocollum
- macrocolum
- macroconidium
- macrocosm
- macrocosmic
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- macrocrystalline
- macrocrystallinity
- macrocycle
- macrocyclic
- macrocyst
- Macrocystis
- macrocyte
- macrocytic
- macrocytosis
- macrodactylism
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- macrodactyly
- macrodome
- macrodont
- macrodontia
- macrodynamic