acorny

English

Etymology

From acorn +‎ -y.

Adjective

acorny (comparative more acorny, superlative most acorny)

  1. Resembling an acorn, acornlike.
    • 2009, André Laks and Michel Crubellier, editor, Aristotle's Metaphysics: Beta Symposium Aristotelicum‎[1], OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 265:
      At the time when an acorn exists, there doesn't seem to be anything else which is acorny (even when bronze has not yet been shaped into anything with a purpose, there is still at least a lump which is brazen, but it is hard to imagine anything corresponding for acorns).
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