The chinkapin oak also has much smaller acorns than the chestnut oak.

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

The chinkapin oak also has smaller acorns than the chestnut oak or another similar species, the swamp chestnut oak ( Q. michauxii ), which have some of the largest acorns of any oaks.

Nuts were a major part of the human diet 780, 000 years ago including the wild almond, prickly water lily, acorns, pistachio and water chestnut.

They prefer eating hard mast such as acorns, nuts, and various trees, including hazel, chestnut, hickory, and pinyon pine as well as various seeds, berries such as juniper and bearberry, roots and insects.

The swamp chestnut oak's acorns are large and relatively sweet.

Historically, gruel — often made from millet, hemp or barley, or in hard times, of chestnut flour and even the less tannic acorns of some oaks — has been a staple of the human diet, especially for peasants.

The least preferred foods are acorns of swamp chestnut oak ( Q. michauxii ) and overcup oak.

In the USA, entire oak ecosystems have declined due to a combination of factors still imperfectly known, but thought to include fire suppression, increased consumption of acorns by growing mammal populations, herbivory of seedlings, and introduced pests.

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.

The exception to livestock and oak toxicity is the domestic pig, which may be fed entirely on acorns in the right conditions, and has traditionally been pastured in oak woodlands ( such as the Spanish dehesa and the English system of pannage ) for hundreds of years.

Arrangements of oak leaves, acorns and sprigs indicate different branches of the United States Navy Staff corps officers.

Telo Martius became one of the two principal Roman dye manufacturing centres, producing the purple colour used in imperial robes, made from the local sea snail called murex, and from the acorns of the oak trees.

California Native Americans preferred California black oak acorns over those of other species for making acorn meal.

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 chinkapin oak is especially known for its sweet and palatable acorns.

There were also grasses, plants and oak trees ( for acorns ), and archaeological finds of mortars and pestles indicates that these source were processed for food.

They stand upon two crossed oak branches with acorns, which symbolize the power and the longevity of the Bulgarian state.

The acorns symbolize the many oak trees in the municipality, as well as many toponyms and names of farms, which start with Eik ( oak ), such as Eik, Eike, and Eikeland.

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.

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.

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

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.

It usually lives in broadleaf forest on peaks higher than 1, 500m, finding lots of fruits like wild grapes, wild berries, fruits of Acfinidia arguta, especially with acorns.

On 1 October 2002, another news story broke about someone illegally selling acorns from the Major Oak on an Internet-based auction website.

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

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.

On December 31, 1813 Major-General Thomas Pinckney ordered the regiment to join Andrew Jackson's force contermanding orders that had been sent from General Flournoy at New Orleans who wanted them there ,* 1 thus providing a disciplined core and strategic resupply for his command which was down to about 75 men eating roots and acorns.

The acorns are 1 – 2 centimeters ( 0. 75 in ) long, and about one-third to one-half enclosed by a cap or cup ( cupule ); they mature in September, turning from green to golden brown.