Acorn

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  • noun. The fruit of an oak, consisting of a single-seeded, thick-walled nut set in a woody, cuplike base.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The fruit of the oak; a one-celled, one-seeded, coriaceous, rounded or elongated nut, the base of which is surrounded by an indurated scaly cup.
  • noun. Nautical, a small ornamental piece of wood, of a conical or globular shape, sometimes fixed on the point of the spindle above the vane, on a masthead, to keep the vane from being blown off.
  • noun. Any similar ornamental tip.
  • noun. Same as acorn-shell, 2.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • noun. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • noun. See Acorn-shell.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • noun. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • noun. See acorn-shell.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
    • Word Usage
    "I'm sure acorn is tied in as well as the other fringe groups. jaye"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fruit  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alfalfa  almond  cassava  celery  cereal  
    variant
    acorn-shell  
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