white-breasted nuthatch

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white-breasted nuthatch - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Nuthatch \Nut"hatch`\, n. [OE. nuthake. See 2d Hack.] (Zool.)
     Any one of several species of birds of the genus Sitta, as
     the European species (Sitta Europaea). The white-breasted nuthatch
      (Sitta Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch
     (Sitta Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea),
     and others, are American.
     [1913 Webster]

white-breasted nuthatch - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  white-breasted nuthatch
      n 1: bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of
           eastern North America [syn: white-breasted nuthatch,
           Sitta carolinensis]