breeches
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In addition to acorns, black bears also eat berries and beechnuts, among others foods, according to the North American Bear Center.
From Fox News • Oct. 23, 2018
It's not a case of every tree for itself: the forest can behave as a single entity when it yields a great crop of acorns or beechnuts, or lies fallow for a year.
From Nature • Sep. 13, 2016
This answer from genetics matches up well with ecological modelling of the abundance of passenger pigeon food — acorns, beechnuts and other forest mast — in North America over the last few thousand years.
From Nature • Jun. 26, 2014
“We’d made a dish with no reference points in the past nor in other lands,” Redzepi writes triumphantly of his dehydrated scallop chips on boiled grains with winter cress, squid ink, and beechnuts.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2014
The raccoons were feeling so much at home that they snatched up beechnuts, bits of dried fish and venison and tossed them playfully into the air.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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