Nipples pink and small like the snouts of animals, of rabbits or mice perhaps; or the almost-red of ripening currants; or the scaly brown of acorn caps.

He stood in a small clearing, surrounded by huge oaks and halfshed hickory trees; the ground was thick with brown and yellow leaves, and the squirrels had left heaps of acorn caps and nut hulls scattered over the ground.

His fingers, burrowing, found an acorn cap and flicked it into the fire.

An old villager with wiry bowed legs and a black beret as small and tight as an acorn cap, paused in his evening stroll and pointed to the black iron plaque around the door's large keyhole.

In this form the puffballs resemble acorn caps of burr oak, with which they may readily be confused.

It wasn't, though, when he opened the door; only the rattle of wind-tossed twigs and acorn caps.

The inner surface of the acorn cap is glabrous (hairless) to sparsely or moderately pubescent, and the hairs if present tend to be kinky rather than straight.

Disappointed and defeated, he turns to the camera, sighs and puts on the remaining acorn cap as a beret.

She lowered herself to the ground and lay flat on her back on a rough surface scattered with twigs and acorn caps.

Twigs and acorn caps crunched pleasantly under their boots on the sandy earth.