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Definition of Acorn cup
1. Noun. Cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn.
Definition of Acorn cup
1. Noun. The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Acorn Cup
Literary usage of Acorn cup
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pennsylvania Trees by Joseph Simon Illick, Pennsylvania Dept. of Forestry (1914)
"An acorn cup, x |. 6. Winter branch covered with a dense rusty pubescence, x fc.
5. Lower surface view of mature leaf showing the dense star-shaped ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"acorn cup hemispherical, as high as broad. DDD. Tree of oblong head; ...
Leaves coarse, tufted with rusty hairs below; acorn cup not drawn in at top. in at ..."
3. Trees in Winter: Their Study, Planting, Care and Identification by Albert Francis Blakeslee, Chester Deacon Jarvis (1913)
"... of nut hairy inside; abortive ovules at the top of the nut: scales of acorn-cup
broad and thin; lobes of leaves bristle-pointed Black Oak* 110 109. ..."
4. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Leaves obovate, bright scarlet in autumn, thin, smooth on the lower surface, the
sinuses deep, wide, and rounded : margin of the acorn cup rounding inwards ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1872)
"The insect thrust its ovipositor down between the acorn and the acorn cup, and,
late in the summer, the acorns thus stung proved abortive, while around them ..."
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