Nutcracker: alternatives and connections

The swamp hickory (Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish wh…

A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, mo…

The edible nut of a forest tree (Castanea vesca) of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur.

A game played by children with nuts.

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

the act of cracking something

the act of cracking something

A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called becau…

the act of cracking something

A feeding on nuts or mast.

Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.

Of or pertaining to physic nuts, the seeds of plants of the genus Jatropha.

A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.

A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucaj…

The top of an ovary which opens transversely, as in the fruit of the purslane and the tree which yields Brazil nuts.

Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found…