Other forms: acorns
An acorn is the little nut of the oak, beloved by squirrels. Gather acorns, an acorn cup, from little acorns.
A big oak drops tens of thousands in a good year and almost none of them become trees, which is the whole strategy. Jays and squirrels bury them and forget where, and that forgetting is how oak woods spread. Great oaks from little acorns grow.
1nounacornThe nut of the oak tree.
“The squirrel buried an acorn under the leaves for the winter.”
acorn is a nut.
Old English aecern meant the fruit of a forest tree. The spelling was later reshaped by oak and corn.
Middle English
acorn
English, today
acorn
From Middle English acorn. Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic akarn, from Proto-Germanic akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European h₂ógr̥ (“berry”). 2
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA