Crossword clues for acorn
acorn
- One struck Chicken Little
- One fell on Chicken Little's head
- Oak's fruit
- Oak, once
- Oak in a nutshell
- Item in a fall stash
- Chicken Little bonker
- Whence grows a mighty oak
- Tree seed
- Squirreled-away tidbit
- Squirrel's quest
- Squirrel's bit
- Squirrel's acquisition
- Squirrel stash
- Squirrel nut
- Squash selection
- Pony nosh
- Oak's beginning
- Oak start
- Oak kernel
- Oak in the embryonic stage
- Nut that's squirreled away
- Nut often squirreled away
- Nut in a cupule
- Nosh for a squirrel
- Item to squirrel away
- It has a cupule at its base
- Growth metaphor
- Chipmunk's morsel
- Chicken Little's falling "sky"
- Chicken Little's "sky"
- Variety of squash
- Tree to be
- Treat for Chip or Dale
- Tidbit for a squirrel
- Symbol of potential
- Symbol marking England's National Trails
- Squirrel's nibble
- Squirrel's food
- Squirrel morsel
- Squirrel meal
- Something to squirrel away?
- Something a jay stores
- Snack for Chip or Dale
- Snack for Chip and Dale
- Snack for Chip 'n' Dale
- Snack for a blue jay
- Seed with real potential
- Seed with a prominent cap
- Seed with a cap
- Seed that grows squirrels?
- Seed a squirrel may bury before winter
- Scrat's prize in the "Ice Age" movies
- Scrat's prize in "Ice Age"
- Potential tree
- Possible oak tree
- Piece of the sky, to Chicken Little
- Part of some deer diets
- Part of an autumn stash
- Part of a woodlands stash
- One in a chipmunk's hoard
- Oak, at one time
- Oak, at first
- Oak-leaf cluster feature
- Oak tree's seed
- Oak tree-to-be
- Oak tree genesis
- Oak to be
- Oak item
- Oak in the making
- Oak feature
- Oak dropping
- Nut with a hat
- Nut with a "hat"
- Nut under an oak
- Nut under a tree
- Nut that is also a kind of squash
- Nut that has a cap
- Nut that gets squirreled away?
- Nut that gets squirreled away
- Nut stashed away by a squirrel
- Nut seen on the back of a dime
- Nut in Vanderbilt's logo
- NUT IN A HAT
- Nut found by a squirrel
- Nut for a squirrel
- Motif for a chair finial
- Morsel in the forest
- Morsel in a chipmunk's cheek pouch
- Morsel for a squirrel
- Mighty oaks from these grow
- Jacobean chair ornament
- Item in a winter cache
- It struck Chicken Little
- It has a cupule
- It drops from an oak tree
- Future part of a stand, maybe
- Future oak, maybe
- Furniture finial
- From which a "tall oak" may grow
- Forest nut
- Finial on many Jacobean chairs
- Find under an oak
- Embryo tree
- Deer snack
- Cupule contents
- Chipmunk tidbit
- Chicken Little's fallen sky
- Chicken Little's bit of falling sky, actually
- Certain tree nut
- Capped nut
- Bit of a squirrel's stash
- A squirrel might hide one
- ____ squash
- Fall faller
- Squirrel's prize
- Cupped fruit
- Part of a squirrel stash
- Future oak tree, potentially
- Tough nut to crack
- It's put away for winter
- It has cupule
- Squirrel's snack
- Squirrel's nugget
- Squirreled-away item?
- ___ squash (ridged vegetable)
- Item buried in a lawn
- Part of a winter stash, maybe
- Kind of squash
- Item in a cheek pouch, sometimes
- Squirrel's staple [don't miss great indie puzzles from avxwords.com! subscribe today!]
- Nut for a nut weevil
- Eventual oak tree
- Something squirreled away?
- Some kind of a nut?
- Hard nut to crack?
- It's often squirreled away
- Oak's source
- Cupule's contents
- Oak-to-be
- Squirrel's find
- Proverbial start of great things
- Squirrel's stash
- Nut with bitter tannin
- Oak starter
- Nut with a cupule
- Voter registration grp. founded in 1970
- Symbol used to mark England's National Trails
- Starter of a 58-Down
- Item in a squirrel's hoard
- Nut with a cap
- Oak nut eaten by a squirrel
- Symbol of potential strength
- Fruit of the oak tree a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
- Squirrel's cache
- Squirrel's tidbit
- Squash type
- Type of squash
- Squash variety named for its shape
- Chickaree's morsel
- Big tree-to-be
- Would-be tree
- It fell on Chicken Little
- Faller on Chicken Little
- Fruit of an oak
- Future oak, perhaps
- Furniture finial, sometimes
- Fruit of the oak tree
- Whence comes a mighty oak
- Start of an oak
- Nut of the oak
- Squirrel fare
- Quercus fruit
- Incipient oak
- Color also called meadowlark
- Potential oak tree
- Oak fruit
- Squirrel's morsel
- Oak seed
- Oak's offspring
- Tree product
- Chipmunk's cache
- Squirrel gathering
- A crop that is produced by a tree
- A grain seed
- A grain, or fruit
- Wood used to provide these antiques, and one will provide wood in time
- Squirrel's treat
- Seed planted in Armagnac or nearby
- Seed in banana republic to enter Wimbledon, finally
- Fruit suggests trouble afoot
- Fruit and top quality vegetable
- From which a mighty tree could grow!
- From which a mighty oak may grow?
- American sailors grip firm piece of mast
- A scam to snaffle farmer’s last fruit from tree
- Ranch of Ron’s regularly provides fruit
- A lot of sailors secure firm part of mast
- A painful thing for a nut
- Babe in the woods?
- Squirrel snack
- Some kind of nut
- Squirrel food
- Tree fruit
- Oak, in a nutshell?
- Squirrel treat
- Oak tree fruit
- Item in a squirrel's stash
- Chipmunk snack
- Castoff from an oak tree
- Tannin source
- Part of a squirrel's stash
- Cheek pouch morsel
- __ squash
- What Chicken Little mistook for the sky
- Squirrel's nut
- Oak source
- Oak product ... or source
- Nut from an oak
- It may be squirreled away
- It falls in the fall
- Hard-shelled seed
- Tree nut
- Tannin-rich nut
- Symbol of growth potential
- Squirrel staple
- Snack for a squirrel
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oak \Oak\ ([=o]k), n. [OE. oke, ok, ak, AS. [=a]c; akin to D. eik, G. eiche, OHG. eih, Icel. eik, Sw. ek, Dan. eeg.]
(Bot.) 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 Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grand proportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard and tough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming the silver grain.
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The strong wood or timber of the oak.
Note: Among the true oaks in America are:
Barren oak, or
Black-jack, Quercus nigra.
Basket oak, Quercus Michauxii.
Black oak, Quercus tinctoria; -- called also yellow oak or quercitron oak.
Bur oak (see under Bur.), Quercus macrocarpa; -- called also over-cup or mossy-cup oak.
Chestnut oak, Quercus Prinus and Quercus densiflora.
Chinquapin oak (see under Chinquapin), Quercus prinoides.
Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, of California; -- also called enceno.
Live oak (see under Live), Quercus virens, the best of all for shipbuilding; also, Quercus Chrysolepis, of California.
Pin oak. Same as Swamp oak.
Post oak, Quercus obtusifolia.
Red oak, Quercus rubra.
Scarlet oak, Quercus coccinea.
Scrub oak, Quercus ilicifolia, Quercus undulata, etc.
Shingle oak, Quercus imbricaria.
Spanish oak, Quercus falcata.
Swamp Spanish oak, or
Pin oak, Quercus palustris.
Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor.
Water oak, Quercus aquatica.
Water white oak, Quercus lyrata.
Willow oak, Quercus Phellos. [1913 Webster] Among the true oaks in Europe are:
Bitter oak, or
Turkey oak, Quercus Cerris (see Cerris).
Cork oak, Quercus Suber.
English white oak, Quercus Robur.
Evergreen oak,
Holly oak, or
Holm oak, Quercus Ilex.
Kermes oak, Quercus coccifera.
Nutgall oak, Quercus infectoria.
Note: Among plants called oak, but not of the genus Quercus, are:
African oak, a valuable timber tree ( Oldfieldia Africana).
Australian oak or She oak, any tree of the genus Casuarina (see Casuarina).
Indian oak, the teak tree (see Teak).
Jerusalem oak. See under Jerusalem.
New Zealand oak, a sapindaceous tree ( Alectryon excelsum).
Poison oak, a shrub once not distinguished from poison ivy, but now restricted to Rhus toxicodendron or Rhus diversiloba.
Silky oak or Silk-bark oak, an Australian tree ( Grevillea robusta).
Green oak, oak wood colored green by the growth of the mycelium of certain fungi.
Oak apple, a large, smooth, round gall produced on the leaves of the American red oak by a gallfly ( Cynips confluens). It is green and pulpy when young.
Oak beauty (Zo["o]l.), a British geometrid moth ( Biston prodromaria) whose larva feeds on the oak.
Oak gall, a gall found on the oak. See 2d Gall.
Oak leather (Bot.), the mycelium of a fungus which forms leatherlike patches in the fissures of oak wood.
Oak pruner. (Zo["o]l.) See Pruner, the insect.
Oak spangle, a kind of gall produced on the oak by the insect Diplolepis lenticularis.
Oak wart, a wartlike gall on the twigs of an oak.
The Oaks, one of the three great annual English horse races (the Derby and St. Leger being the others). It was instituted in 1779 by the Earl of Derby, and so called from his estate.
To sport one's oak, to be ``not at home to visitors,'' signified by closing the outer (oaken) door of one's rooms. [Cant, Eng. Univ.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English æcern "nut," common Germanic (cognates: Old Norse akarn, Dutch aker, Low German ecker "acorn," German Ecker, Gothic akran "fruit"), originally the mast of any forest tree, and ultimately related (via notion of "fruit of the open or unenclosed land") to Old English æcer "open land," Gothic akrs "field," Old French aigrun "fruits and vegetables" (from Frankish or some other Germanic source); see acre.\n
\nThe sense gradually restricted in Low German, Scandinavian, and English to the most important of the forest produce for feeding swine, the mast of the oak tree. Spelling changed 15c.-16c. by folk etymology association with oak (Old English ac) and corn (n.1).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule. 2 (context nautical English) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. 3 (context zoology English) See ''acorn-shell''. 4 (context slang usually in plural English) A testicle.
WordNet
n. fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base
Wikipedia
An acorn is the nut of an oak tree.
Acorn or The Acorn may also refer to:
The acorn, or oak nut, is the nut of the oaks and their close relatives (genera Quercus and Lithocarpus, in the family Fagaceae). It usually contains a single seed (occasionally two seeds), enclosed in a tough, leathery shell, and borne in a cup-shaped cupule. Acorns are 1–6 cm long and 0.8–4 cm broad. Acorns take between 6 and 24 months (depending on the species) to mature; see List of Quercus species for details of oak classification, in which acorn morphology and phenology are important factors.
Acorn, developed by CACI Limited in London, is a segmentation tool which categorises the United Kingdom’s population into demographic types. It has been built by analysing significant social factors and population behaviour to provide precise information and in-depth understanding of the different types of people and communities across the UK. Acorn segments households, postcodes and neighbourhoods into 6 categories, 18 groups and 62 types.
Usage examples of "acorn".
For good measure, she walked across the laboratory and glared at the other acorn in the experiment.
It sat on a white plate identical to that on which the first acorn rested.
Using a tossed coin to make sure she chose the piles randomly, she buried one acorn in the first and the other in the second.
Satisfied, Pekka stopped the chant and looked over toward the other table, where the other acorn should have shown similar growth.
She hurried over to the other table, wondering what was wrong with the acorn on it.
Pekka said, and went back to the pile of dirt in which she had - she knew she had - planted the acorn now missing.
The other acorn, although emplaced in a setting attuned to the first through both similarity and contagion, did not germinate as a result of the spell and, in fact, could not be located despite diligent search at the close of the experiment.
She took no notice of the phenomenon, so accustomed to the ways of the grove was she, but Acorn hesitated.
She emerged from the oaks, expecting to see Acorn still frozen upon the riverbank.
Suddenly she heard movement in the undergrowth and whirled to see Acorn lunging toward her with a crazed gleam in his eyes.
She had forgotten about the tattered wrap and its treasured contents in the time Acorn had been with her.
She proceeded to explain about the ragged bundle Acorn had carried, and described the rock that fell out of it after his death.
Her reaction had been stupid, she admitted as Acorn picked his way across a stream.
Giving up, she tied Acorn to the back, retrieved the offside ribbon, then climbed into the phaeton.
Kicking Acorn to a gallop, she jumped a hedge and raced toward the mill.