nutcrack
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[edit]nutcrack (third-person singular simple present nutcracks, present participle nutcracking, simple past and past participle nutcracked)
- (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 […]
- 2012 Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello "Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions" PLos ONE