kernelly

English

Etymology

From Middle English kirnelly; equivalent to kernel +‎ -y.

Adjective

kernelly (comparative more kernelly, superlative most kernelly)

1. 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

• “kernelly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English

Adjective

kernelly

1. Alternative form of kirnelly