单词	nutcracker
释义	nutcracker /ˈnʌtkrakə / noun 1 (usually nutcrackers) A device for cracking nuts.The collection includes a ferocious Minotaur, the mythical half-human, half-bull, made from welded spoons, nutcrackers and windscreen wipers.... A rope-tow's a generous interpretation of what it really is; it's fondly called a nutcracker because the device that hangs around your waist clamps onto the rope in the same way a nut would be cracked open. Scarborough Sea Life Centre is building a giant tank to accommodate 12 ‘baby’ Japanese Spider Crabs - whose infant pincers are as big as nutcrackers. 1.1 [as modifier] Denoting a person’s nose and chin with the points near each other, either naturally or as a result of the loss of teeth.It is almost perfectly square, heavily set like a bulldog's, with huge nutcracker jaws and a pugilist's broken nose. 2A crow that feeds on the seeds of conifers, found widely in Eurasia and in western North America. Genus Nucifraga, family Corvidae: the Eurasian spotted nutcracker (N. caryocatactes), with white-spotted brown plumage, and the North American Clark’s nutcracker (N. columbiana), with pale grey and black plumage. Balda started studying pinyon jays and Clark's nutcrackers in the late 1960s.... The Clark's nutcracker - which also has a well-developed hippocampus - can pinpoint thousands of scattered food caches up to nine months after storing them. The explorers introduced to science Clark's nutcracker and Lewis's woodpecker, as well as the sage grouse and the lesser Canada goose.
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