valonia

American  

[vuh-loh-nee-uh] / vəˈloʊ ni ə /

noun

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

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valonia British  

/ vəˈləʊnɪə /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of valonia

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

Example Sentences

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valonia

Its main use was and is in combination with valonia as layers for sole leather.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 by Various

A little valonia is exported from Manila, the shipments having been about 150 tons per annum.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

The principal trees are the oak, the valonia oak, the beech. ash, elm, plane, celtis, poplar and walnut, which give way in the higher regions to the pine and fir.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

If I had followed the bent given me when I left school, I should now have been a very indifferent clerk in the hide and valonia business.

From Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

The quantity of valonia imported for home consumption, in 1836, was 80,511 cwts., of which Turkey furnished 58,724 cwts., and Italy and the Ionian islands 7,209 cwts.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.