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| a·corn [ áy kàwrn ] (plural a·corns) |
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fruit of oak: the hard fruit of an oak tree, consisting of a smooth single-seeded nut that is set in a cup-shaped base and ripens from green to brown
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| [ Old English æcern, perhaps < æcer "open land"; later interpreted as "oak-corn"] |
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