Definitions for Pitta

Pitta pit·ta

Spelling: [pit-uh]
IPA: /ˈpɪt ə/

Pitta is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in Pitta (aiptt).

Definitions for Pitta

noun

  1. any of several brilliantly colored, passerine birds of the family Pittidae, inhabiting dark, Old World, tropical forests.

Origin of Pitta

First recorded in 1830-40, pitta is from the Telugu word piṭṭa bird

Examples for Pitta

To this class, to the class that hide their light under a bushel, the beautiful Indian pitta (pitta brachyura) belongs.

There is at least one favoured compound in Madras where a pitta, or possibly a pair of them, spends the cool-weather season.

For example, for someone who has a fiery nature or pitta dosha, Dr. Patel would recommend coconut oil, which is cooling.

It is strange that so retiring a bird as the pitta should find its way with such frequency into inhabited houses.

Apart from the colouring, it is impossible to confound the pitta with any other bird.

The pitta is quick on its feet, and is able to hop and run with equal ease.

It is seen in many bulbuls, robins, and woodpeckers, and in the pitta.

The Blue-headed pitta was abundant at the Kalabakan collecting locality, in primary forest.

The true ant-thrushes of the Old World belong to the genus pitta.

This pitta was exceedingly tame, often moving along only 20 feet ahead of the observer.

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