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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 nut·crack·er /-ˌkrækɚ/
 胡桃鉗,星鳥類

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nut·crack·er n.
 1. An instrument for cracking nuts.
 2. 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nutcracker
      n 1: a compound lever used to crack nuts open [syn: nutcrackers]
      2: any of various small short-tailed sharp-beaked birds that
         creep on trees and feed on small nuts and insects [syn: nuthatch]
      3: speckled birds that feed on nuts