Examples of acorn in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web To make the jelly, a popular, earthy-tasting dish in Korea, Nelson strains the acorn grits through a cheesecloth or nut-milk bag and collects the milky white water in a bowl. — Vanessa Hua, Outside Online, 7 Feb. 2021 Some dishes on display — radish pickles, or mushrooms paired with gently chewy bracken ferns dressed in nutty perilla oil, or tangles of acorn-flour noodles — bring to mind an uplifting array of banchan. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022 While the pop-up focused only on pre-colonization foods, Medina said the cafe menu will include a wider range of culinary traditions, such as acorn sourdough bread and dried and ground Monterey seaweed sprinkled on dishes. — Elena Kadvany, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2022 The series will feature Middle Eastern unleavened bread, a vegan spin on Filipino pan de sal, puff puff from Cameroon, and Indigenous acorn bread that’s been made in California for centuries. — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2022 Some of the most unique drops range from oversized foods – an peach, a potato and chili – to other random objects, like a giant acorn and a wrench. — Editors, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2021 The pigs are acorn-fed, so the sniffers are seeking an ideal bouquet of woody, umami nuttiness with a slight sweetness. — Richard Morgan, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021 The original hardware dongle that allowed phones to accept credit-card swipes was shaped like an acorn. — Steven Levy, Wired, 1 Dec. 2021 Meanwhile, pockets of acorn ants and water fleas have become more heat-tolerant living among us, potentially arming them to repopulate greener contexts as temperatures rise there. — Rebecca Giggs, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021 See More

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History and Etymology for acorn

Middle English akorn, akkorn (partially assimilated to corn "kernel, corn entry 1"), hakerne, accherne, accharne, going back to Old English æcern, going back to Germanic *akrana- (whence also Middle High German ackeran "tree nuts," Old Norse akarn, Gothic akran "fruit, produce"); akin to Old Irish írne "sloe, kernel," Welsh eirin "plums, sloes," aeron "fruits, berries," going back to Celtic *agrinyo-, *agranyo-; perhaps further akin to a Balto-Slavic word with an initial long vowel (Old Church Slavic agoda "fruit," Polish jagoda "berry," Lithuanian úoga)

Note: Taken to be a derivative of Indo-European *h₂eǵros "uncultivated field, pasture" (see acre), though this would seem to exclude the Balto-Slavic etymon, which lacks the suffix, from consideration. It is also not clear if fields, uncultivated or not, are the source of wild tree nuts.

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