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Glans :: Glans (n.) The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.

Acorned :: Acorned (a.) Furnished or loaded with acorns.

Valonia :: Valonia (n.) The acorn cup of two kinds of oak (Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers..

Acorned :: Acorned (a.) Fed or filled with acorns.

Glandiferous :: Glandiferous (a.) Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees..

Racahout :: Racahout (n.) A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids..

Knoppern :: Knoppern (n.) A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing..

Balaniferous :: Balaniferous (a.) Bearing or producing acorns.

Mast :: Mast (n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns..

Balanoid :: Balanoid (a.) Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle..

Acorn :: Acorn (n.) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head..

Angiocarpous :: Angiocarpous (a.) Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule..

Cup :: Cup (n.) Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower..

Acorn :: Acorn (n.) See Acorn-shell.

Acorn-shell :: Acorn-shell (n.) One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. See Barnacle.

Dormouse :: Dormouse (n.) A small European rodent of the genus Myoxus, of several species. They live in trees and feed on nuts, acorns, etc.; -- so called because they are usually torpid in winter..

Pannage :: Pannage (n.) The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns..

Indehiscent :: Indehiscent (a.) Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut..

Conferruminated :: Conferruminated (a.) Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn..

Carpintero :: Carpintero (n.) A california woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), noted for its habit of inserting acorns in holes which it drills in trees. The acorns become infested by insect larvae, which, when grown, are extracted for food by the bird..

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