acorn
IPA: ˈeɪkɔrn
noun
- The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
- (nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
- (zoology) See acorn-shell.
- The glans penis.
- (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
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Examples of "acorn" in Sentences
- The acorn becomes the mighty.
- The acorns are sweet and palatable.
- Squerrels reserve acorns at their sites.
- The inside of the acorn shell is hairless.
- The inside of the acorn shell appears woolly.
- The acorn matures at the end of its second season.
- No one from acorn is in jail or was even arrested.
- The current logo's the V with the embedded acorn leaf.
- Then the zapped acorn ends up in the credits of the film.
- Among the staple foodstuffs of the Native Americans was the acorn.
- I'm sure acorn is tied in as well as the other fringe groups. jaye
- The larvae feed internally in the acorns or nuts of the host plant.
- But it also makes sense; as a Pre-Plant, an acorn is like an egg, sort of.
- Oh sorry, you can only vote twice in Chicago, when acorn is involved and when it is a liberal ...
- Unless acorn is saying “opps we should not have fired them” in that case, restore their employment, and give um back pay.
- Erroneous as it may be, the substitution involved more than just ignorance: an acorn is more or less shaped like an egg; and it is a seed, just like grains of corn.
- Some of us, however, see biology as an unfolding of one or a few initial designs, designed to grow into the tree of life as an acorn is designed to grow into an oak.
- One of the highlights of the session was a spirited exchange between the University of Minnesota's Michael Stokes Paulsen and my colleage Jed Rubenfeld on the status of the fetus -- or, as they put it, over whether an acorn is an oak tree.
- Since then the eggcorn has become something of a mascot at Language Log; today Mark discusses it further, giving the example "hand few" used for handful and quoting Geoff Pullum to the effect that "eggcorns are tiny little poems, a symptom of human intelligence and creativity," and ends with an Update mentioning a fact I should have recalled myself: the word acorn itself contains an earlier misunderstanding.