Acorn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The fruit of an oak, consisting of a single-seeded, thick-walled nut set in a woody, cuplike base.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • n. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • n. See acorn-shell.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  • n. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  • n. See Acorn-shell.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Any similar ornamental tip.
  • n. Same as acorn-shell, 2.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
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    fruit   
    Variant
    acorn-shell   
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