nutcracker
English Thesaurus
1. speckled birds that feed on nuts (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | corvine bird, |
| definition | : | birds of the crow family (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | common nutcracker, nucifraga caryocatactes, |
| definition | : | Old World nutcracker (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | clark's nutcracker, nucifraga columbiana, |
| definition | : | nutcracker of the western United States (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | genus nucifraga, nucifraga, |
| definition | : | nutcrackers (noun.animal) |
2. any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | oscine, oscine bird, |
| definition | : | passerine bird having specialized vocal apparatus (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | european nuthatch, sitta europaea, |
| definition | : | a kind of nuthatch (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | red-breasted nuthatch, sitta canadensis, |
| definition | : | bluish-grey nuthatch with reddish breast; of northern coniferous forests (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sitta carolinensis, white-breasted nuthatch, |
| definition | : | bluish-grey nuthatch with black head and white breast; of eastern North America (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | family sittidae, sittidae, |
| definition | : | nuthatches (noun.animal) |
3. a compound lever used to crack nuts open (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | compound lever, |
| definition | : | a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum (noun.artifact) |
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