valonia

[vuh-loh-nee-uh]

noun

1. acorn cups of an Old World oak, Quercus macrolepis (orQ. aegilops ), used in tanning, dyeing, and making ink.

valonia

/ vəˈləʊnɪə /

noun

1. the acorn cups and unripe acorns of the Eurasian oak Quercus aegilops, used in tanning, dyeing, and making ink

Word History and Origins

Origin of valonia¹

1715–25; < Italian vallonia < Modern Greek balánia, plural of baláni acorn

Word History and Origins

Origin of valonia¹

C18: from Italian vallonia, ultimately from Greek balanos acorn

Example Sentences

He had begun his performance a few yards away, fully concealed amid the squat Valonia oaks and barbed thickets of nettles, and although I knew Chaldoupis was there, crouching in the woods, his song felt like an emanation from deep within the earth, a conjuring.

From New York Times

A new town then began to spring up, settlers being attracted by the prospect of opening up a trade in the products of a vast forest of valonia oaks which grew near.

From Project Gutenberg

The valonia trade has also steadily developed, and is supplemented by the export of timber, tobacco and almonds.

From Project Gutenberg

Valonia, va-lō′ni-a, n. the large acorn-cup of a species of oak which grows round the Levant, used in tanning.

From Project Gutenberg

The exports are:—Cereal, cotton, cotton seed, dried fruits, drugs, fruit, gall nuts, gum tragacanth, liquorice root, maize, nuts, olive oil, opium, rice, sesame, sponges, storax, timber, tobacco, valonia, walnut wood, wine, yellow berries, carpets, cotton yarn, cocoons, hides, leather, mohair, silk, silk stuffs, rugs, wax, wool, leeches, live stock, minerals, &c.

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