nuthatch

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

nuthatches plural nuthack alternative nothag alternative nothagge alternative

词源

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).
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