nutcracker

noun

• 1a device for cracking nuts.

• 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 gray and black plumage