English-Portuguese translations for acorn

• bolota
  Por último, termino com uma nota de optimismo, recordando aos colegas o velho ditado segundo o qual “de pequenas bolotas crescem grandes carvalhos”. Finally, I shall end on a note of optimism and remind colleagues of the old saying ‘out of little acorns grow huge oaks’.
  As pessoas que viviam de recursos florestais como a cortiça ou a bolota, por exemplo, na Andaluzia, perderam a sua fonte de rendimento. The people who have lived from forest resources such as cork, or holm oak acorns, for example, in Andalusia, have lost their source of income.
  Em segundo lugar, estes fundos deverão dirigir-se a microempresas, que são as pequenas bolotas a partir das quais crescem os maiores carvalhos da floresta do emprego.Secondly, the funds should be aimed at micro-enterprises. They are the little acorns from which some of the biggest oaks in the forest of jobs have grown.

Definition of acorn

• The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule
• See ''acorn-shell''

Related words

• acorn-shell
• decacorn
• Acorn Woodpecker
• acorn squash
• acorn woodpecker
• acorn barnacle
• acorn game
• even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while
• great oaks from little acorns grow