Indehiscent: alternatives and connections

See Acorn-shell.

The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air or force it into a closed space.

Nourishing matter stored up within the integuments of the seed in many plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury pa…

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bea…

Having fruit inclosed within a covering that does not form a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated…

A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, m…

Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

an abnormal condition in which a normal opening or tube in the body (as the urethra) is closed or absent

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…

the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "…

A palm tree producing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty…

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut.

The cocoanut.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed.

Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of a flower.