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Acorn cup   /ˈeɪkɔrn kəp/   Listen
Acorn cup

noun
1.
Cup-shaped structure of hardened bracts at the base of an acorn.  Synonym: cupule.






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"Acorn cup" Quotes from Famous Books



... Beyond all of this the solitary bit of furnishing was the object on the table whose oddity caught and held his eye; a thin column of crystal like a ten-inch needle, based in a red disc and supporting a hollow cap, the size of an acorn cup, in which was a single stone or bead of glass, he knew not which. He only knew that the thing was alive with the fire in it and blazed red, and he ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory

... the tortoise, slow and easy. Off started Little Bear, running so fast that he was out of breath before he had passed the first oak tree, and was glad to stop a second and have a drink of dew from an acorn cup ...
— Little Bear at Work and at Play • Frances Margaret Fox

... Regie watching Hester cutting a new supply of plates out of smooth leaves with her little gilt scissors, while Mary and Stella tried alternately to suck an inaccessible grain of sugar out of the bottom of an acorn cup. ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley



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