释义 |
nuthatch/ˈnʌthætʃ/n. any small songbird of the genus Sitta and family Sittidae, climbing up and down tree trunks and feeding on nuts, insects, etc., esp. the Eurasian S. europaea (食坚果、昆虫等的)科属鸟(尤指欧亚的普通) [NUT + hatch related to HACK1, from the bird's habit of hacking with the beak at nuts wedged in a crevice] |