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acorny

acorny adjective: resembling an acorn, acornlike.

Adjective

acorny (comparative more acorny, superlative most acorny)

  1. Resembling an acorn, acornlike.
    • At the time when an acorn exists, there doesn't seem to be anything else which is acorny (even when bronze has not yet been shaped into anything with a purpose, there is still at least a lump which is brazen, but it is hard to imagine anything corresponding for acorns).2009, André Laks and Michel Crubellier, editor, Aristotle's Metaphysics: Beta Symposium Aristotelicum, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 265

Forms of acorny

comparativemore acorny
superlativemost acorny

Origin of acorny

From acorn + -y.

Questions about acorny

What does acorny mean?
Acorny means resembling an acorn, acornlike.
What part of speech is acorny?
Acorny is an adjective.

Words near acorny in the dictionary

  1. Acornhoek
  2. acornlike
  3. acorns
  4. acornworm
  5. acornworms
  6. acorny
  7. acorosome
  8. acorum
  9. acoschimperoside
  10. acosmic
  11. acosmism

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