nuthatch

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	oscine, oscine bird,
definition	:	passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	european nuthatch, sitta europaea,
definition	:	a kind of nuthatch (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	red-breasted nuthatch, sitta canadensis,
definition	:	bluish-grey nuthatch with reddish breast; of northern coniferous forests (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	sitta carolinensis, white-breasted nuthatch,
definition	:	bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family sittidae, sittidae,
definition	:	nuthatches (noun.animal)