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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Middle English

Adjective

kernelly

  1. Alternative form of kirnelly
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