Valonia
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. The
acorn cup of two kinds of oak (
Quercus macrolepis, and Q. vallonea) found in Eastern Europe. It contains abundance of
tannin, and is much used by tanners and dyers.
2. A genus of marine green
algae, in which the whole
frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length.
