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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling or related to a nuthatch; of or pertaining to the Sittinæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology, dated Of or relating to the family Sittidae, or nuthatches.

Etymologies

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New Latin sitta the nuthatch (from Ancient Greek σίττη (sittē, "nuthatch")) + -ine.

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