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Definition of Acorn

Acorn

The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

See Acorn-shell.

Related Definitions:

Above, Acorn-Shell, An, Being, Cup, Cupule, Fruit, Growing, In, Nut, Oak, Of, On, Or, Oval, Piece, Point, See, Spindle, The, Vane, Wood, Woody

Acorn Quotations

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.
Barack Obama

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen

The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don't want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
Jon Voight

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.
Graham Nelson

You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of the season, those are the moments that define the cook's year. I get more excited by that than anything else.
Mario Batali

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Acorn Translations

acorn in Danish is agern
acorn in Dutch is eikel
acorn in French is gland
acorn in German is Eichel
acorn in Hungarian is makk
acorn in Italian is ghianda
acorn in Latin is balanus
acorn in Portuguese is bolota
acorn in Spanish is bellota
acorn in Swedish is ekollon

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