Associations to the word «Acanthisitta»

Wiktionary

ACANTHISITTA, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Acanthisittidae   — the rifleman, a bird endemic to New Zealand.

Dictionary definition

ACANTHISITTA, noun. A genus of Xenicidae.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope