Meanings
comparative more kernelly · superlative most kernelly
- Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels.
the roote is made of many thicke short white strings, which seeme to be grumous or kernelly rootes
1629, John Parkinson, Paridisi In Sole Paradisus Terristris
Origin
- Middle Englishkirnelly
- Englishkernelly
From Middle English kirnelly; equivalent to kernel + -y.
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