ACORN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("acorn" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Meronyms (parts of "acorn"):

acorn cup; cupule (cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn)

Holonyms ("acorn" is a part of...):

oak; oak tree (a deciduous tree of the genus Quercus; has acorns and lobed leaves)