acorn

FREQ #23807

n. 橡树果实 [机] 浆栎, 浆栎果

发音

US /ˈeɪ.kɔɹn/
US /ˈeɪkɚn/
UK /ˈeɪ.kɔːn/

词形变化

acorns 复数 acorns

别名

achorn

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.

    橡子

    橡果

  2. 2.

    A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head.

    航海 交通
  3. 3.

    See acorn-shell.

    生物 动物学
  4. 4.

    The glans penis.

    非正式
  5. 5.

    A testicle.

    俚语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

fruit

部分词 2

acorn cup cupule

整体词 2

oak oak tree

相关短语

acorn cup n. 橡实之外壳 acorn squash 橡果形冬瓜；小青南瓜 acorn nut [机] 盖形螺帽 acorn woodpecker acorn woodpeckers acorn squashes acorn sugar [医] 浆栎糖, 槲皮醇, 环己连五醇 acorn barnacle （无脊椎）藤壶 acorn barnacles acorn worm 囊舌虫 acorn worms acorn nuts acorn cups acorn moth acorn moths

词源

From Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Old English æcern (“acorn, oak-mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *akarn, from Proto-Germanic *akraną (“fruit; acorn, nut”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂égrō (“berry”). Cognates Cognate with Scots aicorn (“acorn”), Dutch aker (“acorn”), German Ecker (“acorn”), Danish agern (“acorn”), Faroese and Icelandic akarn (“acorn”), Norwegian Nynorsk åkorn (“acorn”), Gothic 𐌰𐌺𐍂𐌰𐌽 (akran, “fruit”); Irish airne (“sloe”), Welsh aeron (“berries; small fruits”), eirin (“plums”), Latgalian ūga (“berry”), Latvian oga (“berry”), Lithuanian uoga (“berry”), Belarusian я́гада (jáhada, “berry”), Bulgarian, Russian, and Ukrainian я́года (jáhoda, “berry”), Czech and Slovak jahoda (“strawberry”), Macedonian ја́года (jágoda, “strawberry”), Polish and Slovene jagoda (“berry”), Serbo-Croatian ја̏года, jȁgoda (“strawberry”), Tocharian A and Tocharian B oko (“fruit”). Not related to Old English āc (“oak”), corn (“corn, seed”) or Middle English acquerne.

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