The acorn cups are shallow and covered with dense gray hairs.

The acorn cup is covered with long overlapping scales and russet hairs.

Then one darted straight at her, dropped the acorn cup in her lap, turned and ran off into the night.

Stooping she picked from the grass beside her a fallen acorn cup and handed it to him.

Their quaichs were acorn cups and they drank wine beneath the toadstools.

Meanwhile Random was trying to fend off the squirrel with the acorn cup full of rain and the one with the paper.

The acorn cups are light grey to almost white, with pointed, overlapping scales, covered with tomentum.

The acorns are 2-4 cm long when mature about 18 months after pollination, and largely enclosed in the scaly acorn cup.

The flowers are catkins, and the fruit are acorns 1-1.6 cm long, with an intricate ring pattern on the acorn cup.

Lookalikes include the acorn cup (Hymenoscyphus fructigenus) that grows on fallen acorns and hickory nuts.

It is similar to a small trumpet mouthpiece in the deep curvature of the cup, but the rim is very sharp, resembling an acorn cup.

The acorn cups are deep and the acorns grow singly or in pairs and are light brown, broadly ovoid with a rounded apex.

Other galls found on oak trees include the Oak artichoke gall and the Acorn cup gall, but each of these has its own distinctive form.

"I haven't heard Frank laugh so much for ever so long," said Grace to Amy, as they sat discussing dolls and making tea sets out of the acorn cups.

Although normally distinctive the knopper gall can, under some growth conditions, be mistaken for the acorn cup gall, caused by the gall wasp Andricus grossulariae.

The asexual or parthenogenetic phase, about 10 mm across, develops on acorn cups of English oak Q. robur and sessile oak Q. petraea.

Andricus grossulariae is a gall wasp species inducing agamic acorn cup or gooseberry galls on oak tree acorn cups and sexual phase galls on catkins.

And now they never meet in grove or green, By fountain clear, or spangled starlight sheen, But they do square, that all their elves for fear Creep into acorn cups and hide them there.

Valonia, the mass name for acorn cups obtained in the neighboring oak forests and (because of its chemical derivatives) used by tanners, derives its name from Valona, the ancient name of Vlorë.

Half an hour before dawn the young mouse was roused by a shrew who gave him an acorn cup full of sweet berry juice, a loaf of rough nutbread and some tasty fresh roots that he could not identify.

As stated, two forms of galls exist for this species, the asexual phase inducing the acorn cup gall on the cups in late summer and the sexual phase inducing gooseberry galls on the oak catkins in spring.

Acorn cup galls develop as a chemically induced distortion of the growing acorn cups on oak trees, caused by gall wasps which lay eggs within the tissues of the acorn cup.

The flowers are wind-pollinated catkins produced in mid spring, maturing about 18 months after pollination; the fruit is a globose acorn, 1.5-2 cm diameter, two-thirds enclosed in the acorn cup, which is densely covered in soft 4-8 mm long 'mossy' bristles.

Sarah had made daisy chains and crowns, then they'd both made flower fairies and set them up around their little grass-walled room, creating a village in miniature, with houses, a fairy pub with acorn cups and bowls, and a shop selling new flower frocks and hats.

Out of doors in a natural place, you may be surprised at what you can easily discover to represent the Elements - from tiny acorn cups of Water, to aromatic shrubs for Air, a red or yellow flower or leaf for Fire, and any kind of soil, stone, wood or sand for Earth.