The trees are always renewed from their own acorns.

* Jamón Ibérico Recebo hogs are raised on commercial feed and fed acorns for the last few months of their lives.

* Jamón Ibérico Bellota hogs are fed a diet almost exclusively of acorns ( bellotas ), the most famous.

In Germany, hearts ( Herz / Rot ), bells ( Schellen ), leaves ( Grün ), and acorns ( Eichel ) became the standard suits and are still used in Eastern and Southeastern German decks today for Skat, Schafkopf, Doppelkopf, and other games.

Styles are short ; acorns mature in 6 months and taste sweet or slightly bitter ; the inside of an acorn shell is hairless.

They are distinct from subgenus Quercus in that they have acorns with distinctive cups bearing concrescent rings of scales ; they commonly also have densely clustered acorns, though this does not apply to all of the species.

The leaves and acorns of the oak tree are poisonous to cattle, horses, sheep, and goats in large amounts due to the toxin tannic acid, and cause kidney damage and gastroenteritis.

Many animals cache the acorns, and acorns that have been stored in the ground or otherwise buried are more likely to sprout than those that remain on the surface.

The acorns of the chestnut oak are 1. 5-3 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, among the largest of native American oaks, surpassed in size only by the bur oak and possibly swamp chestnut oak,

The acorns of the chestnut oak are a valuable wildlife food.

To someone who does not know which trees are oaks, nor which nuts are acorns, the definition is inadequate.

Thus, the example of a definition of oak given above ( something that has catkins and grows from acorns ) is not completely useless, even if " acorn " and " catkin " are defined in terms of " oak ", in that it supplies additional concepts ( e. g., the concept of catkin ) in the definition.

The acorns are usually sessile, and grow to 0. 5-1 inch in length, falling in early October.

The acorns are much less bitter than the acorns of red oaks.

The acorns, borne in a shallow, thin cap, are hemispherical, 10-16 mm long and 9-15 mm broad, green maturing pale brown about 18 months after pollination.

The acorns are small with a thin, shallow cap.

The acorns are eaten by squirrels, mice, voles, chipmunks, deer, turkey, and other birds.

Other meanings have been suggested over the years and are listed on the borough's website, including an Indian word for running water, a cleft in the rock or under the rock or hollow rock, the word " hohokes ", signifying the whistle of the wind against the bark of trees, the Chihohokies Indians whose chief lived here, the Dutch Hoog Akers for " high acorns " or Hoge Aukers, Dutch for " high oaks ", the Indian word hoccus meaning " fox ", or woakus, " gray fox ", or that the " Ho " part means joy or spirit, and the rest of the name from " hohokes ," meaning a kind of bark of a tree.

The acorns in the arms are symbols of the city of Aurich and the six-pointed spurs are symbols of Norden.

The nuts are edible, though bitter ( though not nearly as bitter as acorns ) with a high tannin content, and are called beechnuts or beechmast.

Q. robur is distinguished from this species by its leaves having only a very short stalk 3 – 8 mm long, and by its pedunculate ( stalked ) acorns.

The acorns, borne in a shallow cup, are hemispherical, 0. 35-0. 5 in ( 9-12 mm ) long, green, maturing blackish-brown about 18 months after pollination.

The acorns are round, 9-14 mm long, maturing about 18 months after pollination.

The Quercus pubescens acorns are light brown to yellow, 8-20 mm long, usually thin and pointed.

The acorns tend to be ellipsoid ( ellipse-shaped, from which its scientific name derives ), though they tend to be highly variable and range to globose, 6-11 mm long and 10-19 mm broad, a third to a half covered in a deep cup, green maturing pale brown about 18 months after pollination ; the kernel is very bitter.

The acorns mature in about 18 months after pollination ; solitary or in pairs, sessile or stalked ; nut oblong-ovoid with broad flat base, full, with acute apex, one half to one and one-fourth of an inch long, first green, maturing nut-brown ; cup, saucer-shaped and shallow, 2 cm ( 0. 8 in ) wide, usually covering only the base, sometimes one-fourth of the nut, thick, shallow, reddish brown, somewhat downy within, covered with thin imbricated reddish brown scales.

The acorns are very large, 2 – 5 cm ( 0. 8 – 2 in ) long and 2 – 4 cm ( 0. 8-1. 5 in ) broad, having a large cup that wraps much of the way around the nut, with large overlapping scales and often a fringe at the edge of the cup.

The fruit is a slender reddish brown acorn 2-3. 5 cm long and 1-1. 5 cm broad, with the basal quarter enclosed in a cupule ; unusually for a red oak, the acorns mature about 7 – 8 months after pollination ( most red oak acorns take 18 months to mature ).

Styles long ; acorns mature in about 6 months and taste bitter ; the inside of this acorn's shell is hairless.

Styles long ; acorns mature in 18 months and taste very bitter.

The acorns are 2 – 2. 5 cm long, pedunculate ( having a peduncle or acorn-stalk, 3 – 7 cm long ) with one to four acorns on each peduncle.

Leaves narrow ; acorns 2 cm long, bitter tasting.

Leaves broader ; acorns 2. 5 cm long, sweet tasting.

The acorns are 2 to 3 cm long, in a deep cup fringed with elongated scales.

Styles long ; acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell is hairless or slightly hairy

The red oaks-North, Central and South America, styles long, acorns mature in 18 months, very bitter, inside of acorn shell is woolly

The acorns are about long, and, like other red oaks, take 18 months to mature.

The acorns are 1. 5 – 2 cm long, and are mature in their first summer.

The acorns are 2 – 3 cm long, with a moderately sweet kernel, and mature in 6 – 7 months from pollination.

The oak leaf cluster ( OLC ) is a metal device formed as a twig of four leaves with three acorns on the stem, 13 / 32 inch long for the suspension ribbon on a medal, and 5 / 16 inch long for wear on service ribbon bars.

The acorns are 1. 5-2 cm long, blackish-brown, and mature in 6-8 months from pollination ; the kernel is sweet, and is an important food for many mammals and birds.