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- adjective Having a
kernel .
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Examples
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The large-kernelled, white corn used for pozole, called cacahuazintle, can nowadays be found ready to cook, having gone through nixtamalization, in the refrigerated section of supermarkets all over Mexico and north of the border.
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The large-kernelled, white corn used for pozole, called cacahuazintle, can nowadays be found ready to cook, having gone through nixtamalization, in the refrigerated section of supermarkets all over Mexico and north of the border.
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The sun was just setting when the captain and Chris reappeared bearing gourds full of smoking fish, and sweet sugary yams, and ears of curious small kernelled Indian corn.
The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades J. Watson [Illustrator] Davis
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In quality, it cannot be considered equal to some of the shrivelled-kernelled, sweet descriptions, but will prove acceptable to those to whom the peculiar, sugary character of these may be objectionable.
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Magic, including spiritualism, palmistry, fortune-telling by cards, hot chestnuts, double-kernelled nuts and tallow droppings; would have adopted Voodoo and Oboe had it known anything about them, and showed itself, in every way, one of the most accommodating arrangements that had ever been invented since the birth of the Sea.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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As he rose up through the branches of the Wonderful Tree he tore off one of the great twin fruits -- the magic double kernelled nuts that make people young, -- and the little girl-daughter saw it bobbing alongside the canoe, and pulled it in and began to pick out the soft eyes of it with her little golden scissors.
Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The Acacia Seyal, formerly abundant by the banks of the river, is now almost entirely confined to certain valleys of the Theban desert, along with a variety of the kernelled dôm-palm, of which a poetical description has come down to us from the Ancient Egyptians.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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He gave (his people) the beautiful grains; - The black millet and the double-kernelled, The tall red and the white.
The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 James Legge 1856
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They planted extensively the black and the double-kernelled, Which were reaped and stacked on the ground.
The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 James Legge 1856
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Blithe-kernelled pomegranates, just gathered to help
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 Various 1841
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