different between acorn vs nutlet

English

Alternative forms

• achorn (Chester)

Etymology

From Middle English acorne, an alteration (after corn) of earlier akern, from Old English ?cern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-Germanic *akran?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ógeh? (“berry”). Cognate with Scots aicorn, Saterland Frisian Äkkene, Dutch aker, Danish agern, Low German ecker; Welsh eirin (“plums”), Breton irin (“plum”), Irish airne (“sloe”), Lithuanian úoga, Russian ?????? (jágoda, “berry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?e?.k??n/, /?e?k?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?e?.k??n/

Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

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. (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.

Holonyms

• (fruit of an oak): oak

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• acorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Carno, Coran, Corna, acron, caron, coran, narco, narco-, racon

English

Etymology

nut +? -let

Noun

nutlet (plural nutlets)

1. A small nut.

Synonyms

• (small nut): nucule, acorn

Translations