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Definition of acorn
: the nut of the oak usually seated in or surrounded by a hard woody cupule of indurated bracts
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Two years ago, acorn-producing trees went haywire and multiplied in number, making a bounty of acorns.
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Get strap-happy Use a leather punch to put a hole in each end of the natural-leather strips, then fasten them onto drawers with flat-backed brass machine screws in front and acorn nuts in back.
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Lonzo Ball’s TV Foot Locker ad, a Father’s Day spoof of his old man: Proof an acorn can fall far from the tree.
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In New England, Ostfeld has found that the best predictor of whether a tick season will be bad is acorns.
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Yard waste is defined as leaves, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, twigs, dead plant matter and thatch.
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Yard waste is defined as leaves, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, twigs, dead plant matter and thatch.
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Yard waste is defined as leaves, pine needles, pine cones, acorns, twigs, dead plant matter and thatch.
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Maine bear biologist Jennifer Vashon said the number of complaints correlates with availability of natural foods such as berries, acorns and beechnuts.
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Origin and Etymology of acorn
Middle English akern, from Old English æcern; akin to Middle High German ackeran acorns collectively, Old Irish áirne sloe, Lithuanian uoga berry
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