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Lying over each other in regular order, so as to "break joints," like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation.
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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.
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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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Remaining closed at maturity, or not opening along regular lines, as the acorn, or a cocoanut.
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See Acorn-shell.
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The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
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A cuplet or little cup, as of the acorn; the husk or bur of the filbert, chestnut, etc.
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Fed or filled with acorns.
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Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.
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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.
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Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees.
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A preparation from acorns used by the Arabs as a substitute for chocolate, and also as a beverage for invalids.
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Furnished or loaded with acorns.
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The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.
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Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.
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The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits.
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A kind of gall produced by a gallfly on the cup of an acorn, -- used in tanning and dyeing.
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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.
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