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acorns

acorns is the plural of acorn.

Meaning of acorn

Noun

acorn (plural acorns)

  1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
  2. A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.
  3. See acorn-shell.
  4. (informal) The glans penis.
    • The Romans, likewise, represented the uncouth Priapus—the god of rustic fertility and sexual assault—as comically well endowed, with his acorn showing.2021, A. W. Strouse, Form & Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision
  5. (plural-normally, slang) A testicle.

Phrases with acorns

Questions about acorns

What is acorns the plural of?
Acorns is the plural of acorn.

Words near acorns in the dictionary

  1. acorn-shell
  2. acorn-shells
  3. acorned
  4. Acornhoek
  5. acornlike
  6. acorns
  7. acornworm
  8. acornworms
  9. acorny
  10. acorosome
  11. acorum

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