| 单词 | nutcracker | |||||||||
| 释义 | nutcrackernut·crack·erN0197400 (nŭt′krăk′ər)nutcracker(ˈnʌtˌkrækə)nut•crack•er(ˈnʌtˌkræk ər)n.
nut(nat) nounnutcrackernutcracker,common name for a small crow of the genus Nucifraga in the family Corvidae (crow family). The Old World nutcracker (N. caryocatactes) is found throughout the colder regions of Europe, including high mountain forests. Its plumage is chocolate brown, speckled with white. With its strong, conical beak, it feeds omnivorously on a diet of conifer seeds, nuts, small buds, and insects. In a squirrellike fashion, it stores seeds during the summer and fall against the winter's snow, and has a remarkable ability to relocate its cache exactly, even though covered with snow. Clark's nutcracker (N. columbians), pale gray with black and white wings, is found throughout W North America, and is similar in its habits and choice of habitat to N. caryocatactes. It somewhat resembles a stout-billed mockingbird. Like most crows, nutcrackers are intelligent and aggressive birds. They are highly gregarious, and their flocks show a complex social organization. Their young are born blind and helpless. Nutcrackers are classified in the phylum ChordataChordata, phylum of animals having a notochord, or dorsal stiffening rod, as the chief internal skeletal support at some stage of their development. Most chordates are vertebrates (animals with backbones), but the phylum also includes some small marine invertebrate animals. ..... Click the link for more information. , subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Passeriformes, family Corvidae. Nutcracker(Nucifraga caryocatactes), a bird of the family Corvidae of the order Passeriformes. The body measures approximately 35 cm long. The plumage is dark brown spotted with white. The nutcracker is distributed in the coniferous forests of Europe and Asia. In the USSR it lives in the taiga zone and the forests of Tien-Shan. In winter it makes short migrations. It feeds on seeds, mainly those of the nut pine and fir, on insects, and occasionally on rodents. During years of poor conifer seed yield, the nutcracker makes massive migrations. The bird nests in trees in dense forests. The female lays three to four, rarely five, speckled eggs, which hatch in 20 days. The nutcracker, in eating numerous seeds from the nut pine, promotes the nut pine’s spread as well as growth over burned and felled areas, since it stores the seeds in the ground. REFERENCEPtitsy Sovetskogo Soiuza, vol. 5. Edited by G. P. Dement’ev and N. A. Gladkov. Moscow, 1954.nutcrackerNutCRACKERA software porting tool for converting Unix/Linux applications to Windows, originally from software development firm DataFocus, Inc., Fairfax, VA. When DataFocus merged with Mortice Kern Systems Inc. (www.mks.com) in 1999, the NutCRACKER product suite became MKS Toolkit for Enterprise Developers. This comprehensive set of Unix utilities has become a leading player in the interoperability marketplace of Unix to Windows migration. For more information, visit www.mkssoftware.com.nutcrackernut·crack·er(nuht-krak'ĕr),nutcracker
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nutcracker - a compound lever used to crack nuts open
nutcracker - any of various small short-tailed songbirds with strong feet and a sharp beak that feed on small nuts and insects