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Nutcracker   /nˈətkrˌækər/   Listen
Nutcracker

noun
1.
A compound lever used to crack nuts open.
2.
Any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects.  Synonym: nuthatch.
3.
Speckled birds that feed on nuts.



Related searches:
Clark's nutcracker
common nutcracker


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"Nutcracker" Quotes from Famous Books



... were more or less in number than we should be? Opposite side all right. Who was extra on ours? I leaned forward. Lady Landor on one side of Tom, on the other who? I caught glimpses of plumes pink and green nodding over a dinner plate, and beneath them a pink nose in a green visage with a nutcracker chin altogether unknown to me. A sharp gray eye shot a sideway glance down the table and caught me peeping, and I retreated, having only marked in addition two clawlike hands, with pointed ruffles and a mass of brilliant rings, making good play with a knife ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery - Riddle Stories • Various


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


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