acorn

Definition of acorn in English English dictionary: The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule; A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head; {i} fruit or seed of the oak tree; {n} the seed or fruit of an oak, a shell; Nut of the oak tree; an Apache cooking staple; British based computer company (now owned by Olivetti) - manufacturer of the Archimedes and RISC PC First company to bring RISC based computing to the general public in the UK; A type of dry fruit composed of a nut with a cap of fused bracts Example: Oak; Applications, Catalogues, Operators/models, Repositories of data, all on the Network Describes the interoperable system architecture proposed by the OpenGIS Consortium and used in the CANRI framework; The fruit of an oak; A one-seed nut fixed in a woody cup; A Classification of Residential Neighborhoods; a marketing segmentation system that enables consumers to be classified according to the type of area in which they live; the seed produced by an oak tree; Aladdin's Lamp Ankh; fruit of an oak tree, composed of a thick walled nut and its woody cup (which is the base of the acorn); nut-like fruit of an oak with a scaly or warty cap; Acronym for A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods; A classification of residential neighborhoods; a marketing segmentation system that enables consumers to be classified according to the type of area they live; A Classification Of Residential Neighbourhoods (used in SSA); the fruit of an oak, not including the cup or peduncle The nut of an oak; fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base; Turned ornament resembling an acorn; common in Jacobean furniture as finials on chair posts and bedposts, as pendants and as the profile of leg turnings in Jacobean tables; Turned or cast ornamentation resembling an acorn; common in Jacobean furniture as finials on chair posts and bedposts, pendants and as the profile of leg turnings in Jacobean tables Also found as decorative finials on silver and china serving pieces; Affiliated Cooking Oil Reclaimers Nationwide; Fruit of the oak tree This nut may be eaten raw, roasted, or baked It can be chopped to the size of coffee beans, roasted until brown, ground, mixed with a small amount of butter, and prepared as a coffee substitute; An acorn is a pale oval nut that is the fruit of an oak tree. the nut of the oak tree. Nut of the oak. Acorns are usually seated in or surrounded by a woody cupule. They mature within one to two seasons, and their appearance varies depending on the species of oak. Acorns provide food for wildlife and are used to fatten swine and poultry; See Acorn- shell
acorn cup: The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed
acorn nut: A closed nut having a dome-like cap over the back, protruding part of the engaged screw or bolt
acorn squash: Any of several varieties of a plant, Cucurbita pepo, being a dark green winter squash having yellow to orange fresh
acorn woodpecker: A species of woodpecker native to the area between southwestern United States and Colombia, Melanerpes formicivorus
acorn woodpeckers: plural form of acorn woodpecker
acorn-shell: One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus
acorn squash: (Biyoteknoloji) An acorn-shaped dark green winter squash (Cucurbita pepo) with a ridged surface and mildly sweet yellow to orange flesh
Acorn cup: cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn
acorn barnacle: barnacle that attaches to rocks especially in intertidal zones
acorn squash: squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
acorn squash: An oval winter squash with a ribbed, dark green skin and slightly sweet orange flesh May be eaten baked or directly from the shell The word squash comes from the Massachusetts Indian word "asquash," meaning "eaten green "
acorn squash: small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
acorn squash: small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh
acorn squash: n. A type of winter squash shaped somewhat like an acorn and having longitudinal ridges, a variously colored rind, and yellow to orange flesh
acorn tube: a small vacuum tube; used at high frequencies
acorn worm: Any of a class (Enteropneusta) of hemichordate, wormlike animals that inhabit shallow burrows in mud or sand flats of intertidal zones and are equipped with an acornlike proboscis used for digging and collecting food
ride a horse foaled by an acorn: To be hung at the gallows
acorns: plural of acorn
sea acorn: An acorn barnacle (Balanus)

acorn

Hyphenation

a·corn

Turkish pronunciation

eykôrn

Pronunciation

/ˈākôrn/ /ˈeɪkɔːrn/

Etymology

[ 'A-"korn, -k&rn ] (noun.) before 12th century. Middle English acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akranan, from Proto-Indo-European *hₐógehₐ- (“berry”). Cognate with East Frisian äkkene, Flemish aker, Danish agern; and with Irish àirne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian ягода (jágoda, “strawberry”).