Meaning

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

    Eichel

    жёлудьžóludʹ

    жо́лудьžóludʹ

    fruit of the oak tree: a smooth thin-walled nut in a woody cup-shaped base

  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.

  5. (usually plural, slang)A testicle.

Examples

30 sentences
  1. Do rabbits eat acorns?

  2. Squirrels eat acorns.

    Білки їдять жолуді. — deniko

    ruБелки едят жёлуди. — Wezel

    deEichhörnchen fressen Eicheln. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  3. Squirrels love acorns.

    Білки обожнють жолуді. — deniko

    ruБелки любят желуди. — sharptoothed

    deEichhörnchen mögen Eicheln. — raggione

  4. That squirrel stole my acorn!

    Ця білка поцупила мого жолудя! — Walentinio

    ruЭта белка украла мой жёлудь! — Walentinio

    deDas Eichhörnchen da hat meine Eichel geklaut! — Yorwba

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  5. Great oaks from little acorns grow.

    deGroße Eichen erwachsen aus kleinen Eicheln. — Tamy

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Origin

Inherited from Middle English acorn, an alteration (after corn) of earlier *akern, from Ol

Inherited 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”).

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