Complete Definition of "acorn"

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Etymology
Anglo Saxon æcern, from æcer field, acre; akin to Dutch aker acorn, German ecker, Icelandic akarn, Danish agern, Gothic ����� (akran) "fruit", ���� (akrs) "field"; � originally fruit of the field. See acre

Pronunciation
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Noun
acorn (plural: acorns)

  1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  2. nautical A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  3. context|zoology See acorn-shell.

Translations

Albanian: lende f
Arabic: ARchar|ب��ط unicode|(ballú:�) m
Bosnian: žir m, želu m
Catalan: gla f
Chinese: 橡� (xiàng z�)
Croatian: žir m
Czech: žalud m
Dutch: eikel m
Esperanto: glano
Finnish: tammenterho
French: gland m
German: Eichel f
Greek: βελανίδι (velanídi)
Hungarian: makk
Icelandic. akarn n
Interlingua: glande
Italian: ghianda f
Japanese: ���� (donguri)
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Korean: ��� (eikon), ��리 (dotori)
Latvian: zīlīte f
Central Sierra Miwok: watýk�a-
Norwegian: kongle m/f
Polish: żo��dź m
Portuguese: bolota f
Russian: ж�л�д� (žólud�) m
Serbian:
:Cyrillic: жи� m, жел�д m
:Roman: žir#Serbian|žir m, želud m
Slovak: žalu� m
Spanish: bellota f
Swedish: ekollon
Turkish: palamut
Volapük: kvär

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