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

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

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

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

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

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

Acorn Cup :: Acorn cup () The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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