acorn
the typically ovoid fruit or nut of an oak, enclosed at the base by a cupule.
a finial or knop, as on a piece of furniture, in the form of an acorn.
Origin of acorn
1Other words from acorn
- acorned, adjective
Words Nearby acorn
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How to use acorn in a sentence
Perhaps nowhere has an acorn spin-off been as successful as one has in New York City.
Action Now recently helped elect Toni Foulkes, a former Chicago acorn leader, to the Chicago City Council.
acorn was able to do a lot of things for low-income people, but they were stopped.
But my favorite story linked—inevitably—the navigator program to acorn.
What’s Really Obstructing Obamacare? GOP Resisters | Michael Tomasky | November 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThese were the adopted symbols of the Vanderbilts, as “from an acorn a mighty oak shall grow.”
Every few days after that the boy took Squinty out of his pen, and let him do the rope-jumping and the acorn-hunting tricks.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumThe two animal friends soon came to where some of the acorn nuts had fallen off a tree, and they ate as many as they wanted.
Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard BarnumIt was then more than this only in the same sense as the egg, new-laid, is the full-grown fowl, or the acorn the oak.
The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2 | Egerton RyersonWhen I went into this kitchen, there was a cake baking, with an ornament on the top that looked quite like an acorn.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanAll powers lie hidden within us as the oak tree lies hidden in the acorn.
Evolution of Life and Form | Annie Wood Besant
British Dictionary definitions for acorn
/ (ˈeɪkɔːn) /
the fruit of an oak tree, consisting of a smooth thick-walled nut in a woody scaly cuplike base
Origin of acorn
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