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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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Quercite :: Quercite (n.) A white crystalline substance, C6H7(OH)5, found in acorns, the fruit of the oak (Quercus). It has a sweet taste, and is regarded as a pentacid alcohol..

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

Acorn :: Acorn (n.) The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule..

Masty :: Masty (a.) Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc..

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

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..

Sea Acorn :: Sea acorn () An acorn barnacle (Balanus).

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

Oak :: Oak (n.) Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or less inclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are now recognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occur in the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other parts of North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts of South America and Afric

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

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

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