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noun

Nutcracker n.

An instrument for cracking nuts.

(Zool.)

(a)

A European bird (Nucifraga caryocatactes), allied to the magpie and crow. Its color is dark brown, spotted with white. It feeds on nuts, seeds, and insects.

(b)

The American, or Clarke's, nutcracker (Picicorvus Columbianus) of Western North America.

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Etymology of 'Nutcracker'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nutcracker" Quotes from Famous Books

... are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, whose habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate. "Jim Crow" shuns the mountains for reasons satisfactory to himself; not so the magpie, the raven, and that mischief-maker, Clark's nutcracker. All of which keeps the bird-lover from the East in an ecstasy of surprises until he has become accustomed to ...

— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser

... gown worthy of the Roman Empress she looks, with that beak nose and nutcracker chin. 'Twas a black velvet petticoat, embroidered in chenille, the pattern a great gold wicker basket filled to spilling over with ramping flowers that climbed and grew all about her person. A design for a banqueting hall rather than a woman; or indeed a committee of Bluestockings ...

— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington

Words linked to "Nutcracker" : Sitta canadensis, Sitta carolinensis, Nucifraga columbiana, corvine bird, common nutcracker, white-breasted nuthatch, family Sittidae, oscine, oscine bird, Clark's nutcracker, Sittidae, Sitta europaea, genus Nucifraga, nuthatch, red-breasted nuthatch, European nuthatch, Nucifraga caryocatactes, compound lever