kernelly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English kirnelly; equivalent to kernel + -y.
Adjective
[edit]kernelly (comparative more kernelly, superlative most kernelly)
- Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.
- 1629, John Parkinson, Paridisi In Sole Paradisus Terristris:
- the roote is made of many thicke short white strings, which seeme to be grumous or kernelly rootes
References
[edit]- “kernelly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]kernelly
- Alternative form of kirnelly