nutcrack

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English

Etymology

From nut +‎ crack.

Verb

nutcrack (third-person singular simple present nutcracks, present participle nutcracking, simple past and past participle nutcracked)

  1. (of primates) To crack nuts for food.
    • 2012 Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions" PLos ONE
      Marshall-Pescini and Whiten noticed that Baluku performed cracking actions in the air while watching the demonstrator nutcrack