Usually means: Protective outer casing of acorn.
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  1. acorn-shell: Wordnik
  2. acorn-shell: Wiktionary
  3. Acorn-shell, acorn-shell: Dictionary.com
  4. Acorn-shell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. acorn-shell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Acorn-shell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. acorn-shell: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Acorn-shell: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (acorn-shell)

▸ noun:  One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus.

Similar:
acorn barnacle, sea acorn, balanomorph, rock barnacle, balanomorphan, ark shell, barnacle, acrothoracican, boat shell, nonbalanid, more...

Opposite:
kernel, meat, flesh, pulp

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Similar:
acorn barnacle, sea acorn, balanomorph, rock barnacle, balanomorphan, ark shell, barnacle, acrothoracican, boat shell, nonbalanid, more...

Opposite:
kernel, meat, flesh, pulp



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