acorn

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noun

Plural noun:

acornsachorn

1.
The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
2.
(nautical) A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
3.
(zoology) See acorn-shell.
4.
(informal)The glans penis.
5.
(plural normally, slang)(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

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Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (acorn, oak-mast), from *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (fruit; acorn, nut), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (berry). 2 cog Cognate with aicorn, aker, Ecker, agern, akarn, åkorn, 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽; airne, aeron, eirin (plums), ūga, oga, uoga,,, jahoda,, jagoda,, jȁgoda (strawberry), oko.