acorn

Word family adjectiveacornednounacorn

Related topics: Plants

a·corn /ˈeɪkɔːn $ -ɔːrn, -ərn/ noun [countableC]

HBPthe nut of the oak tree 橡实，橡子 →5 see picture at 见图 tree

Examples from the Corpus

acorn• Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.• Do you think the sky is falling when an acorn falls?• An acorn is tiny compared to its parent, but a kiwi lays an egg a quarter her own weight.• The absurd idea, he wrote, that a work of art grows from nothing into something, from acorn into oak.• May acorns fall from an oak.• The vessel was probably used to store acorns or water, Ver Planck said.• Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns.• The acorns should be picked from trees, not the ground.

From Longman Business Dictionary

ACORNACORN /ˈeɪkɔːn-ɔːrn, -ərn/ nounMARKETING

A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods; a system in Britain of putting areas of the country into different classes according to the incomes of the people who live there

the five local authorities with the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme

Origin acorn

Old English æcern

单词	acorn
释义	acorn Word family adjectiveacornednounacorn Related topics: Plants a·corn /ˈeɪkɔːn $ -ɔːrn, -ərn/ noun [countableC] HBPthe nut of the oak tree 橡实，橡子 →5 see picture at 见图 tree Examples from the Corpus acorn• Cornelius observed that the wooden bobbin dangling on a string from the window blind was the shape of an acorn.• Do you think the sky is falling when an acorn falls?• An acorn is tiny compared to its parent, but a kiwi lays an egg a quarter her own weight.• The absurd idea, he wrote, that a work of art grows from nothing into something, from acorn into oak.• May acorns fall from an oak.• The vessel was probably used to store acorns or water, Ver Planck said.• Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns.• The acorns should be picked from trees, not the ground. From Longman Business Dictionary ACORNACORN /ˈeɪkɔːn-ɔːrn, -ərn/ nounMARKETING A Classification of Residential Neighbourhoods; a system in Britain of putting areas of the country into different classes according to the incomes of the people who live there the five local authorities with the worst housing conditions under the ACORN scheme Origin acorn Old English æcern
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