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Nuthatch
//ˈnʌtˌhæt͡ʃ// noun
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Noun
- 1 Any of various small passerine birds from the genus Sitta, found throughout the northern hemisphere and noted for their unusual proclivity for climbing down trees head first.
"Nuthatches have rather a habit of entering houses through open windows, probably out of curiosity; and we owed to this habit a pet nuthatch, which became extremely tame, and used to take flies from our finger."
- 2 any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English nutthache, notehache, nuthake, nuttehake, nothak, equivalent to nut + hatch. Compare English nutcracker.
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