NUTHATCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nuthatch mean? 

• NUTHATCH (noun)
  The noun NUTHATCH has 1 sense:

1. any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects

  Familiarity information: NUTHATCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUTHATCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

nutcracker; nuthatch

Hypernyms ("nuthatch" is a kind of...):

oscine; oscine bird (passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nuthatch"):

European nuthatch; Sitta europaea (a kind of nuthatch)

red-breasted nuthatch; Sitta canadensis (bluish-grey nuthatch with reddish breast; of northern coniferous forests)

Sitta carolinensis; white-breasted nuthatch (bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America)

Holonyms ("nuthatch" is a member of...):

family Sittidae; Sittidae (nuthatches)