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nuthatch

/ˈnʌtˌhæt͡ʃ/

nuthatch noun: 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.

nuthatch: any of various small passerine birds from the genus Sitta, found throughout the northern hemisphere...
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Noun

nuthatch (plural nuthatches)

  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.1895, Richard Lydekker, editor, The Royal Natural History, Volume 3, Frederick Warne & Co., page 440
    • The bird was in very faded plumage with only a slight rusty wash to the underparts, and had I not heard the call, I might have mistaken it for a Pygmy Nuthatch.1996, The Nebraska Bird Review, Volumes 64-69, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, page 156

nuthatch meaning in Tamil

nuthatch in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும்

Synonyms of nuthatch

Forms of nuthatch

pluralnuthatches
alternative formnuthack
alternative formnothag
alternative formnothagge

Origin of nuthatch

From Middle English nutthache, notehache, nuthake, nuttehake, nothak, equivalent to nut + hatch (akin to hack). Compare English nutcracker. Compare typologically Polish kowalik (akin to kować).

Words formed from nuthatch

Questions about nuthatch

What does nuthatch mean?
Nuthatch means 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.
What is nuthatch in Tamil?
Nuthatch in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும் பறவைகளில், இது ஒரு சிறப்பு இனமாகும். See Nuthatch meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is nuthatch?
Nuthatch is a noun.
How do you pronounce nuthatch?
Nuthatch is pronounced /ˈnʌtˌhæt͡ʃ/.
What is the plural of nuthatch?
The plural of nuthatch is nuthatches.

Words near nuthatch in the dictionary

  1. nuthack
  2. nuthacker
  3. nuthackers
  4. nuthacks
  5. Nuthall
  6. nuthatch
  7. nuthatches
  8. nuthead
  9. nutheads
  10. nuthin
  11. nuthin'

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nuthatch (page history and authors); nuthatch (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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