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noun

Kernel n.

The essential part of a seed; all that is within the seed walls; the edible substance contained in the shell of a nut; hence, anything included in a shell, husk, or integument; as, the kernel of a nut. "'A were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel"

A single seed or grain; as, a kernel of corn.

A small mass around which other matter is concreted; a nucleus; a concretion or hard lump in the flesh.

The central, substantial or essential part of anything; the gist; the core; as, the kernel of an argument.

verb

Kernel v. i. (past & past part. kerneled or kernelled; pres. part. kerneling or kernelling) To harden or ripen into kernels; to produce kernels.

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Etymology of 'Kernel'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kernel" Quotes from Famous Books

... in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him ...

— Leaves of Life - For Daily Inspiration • Margaret Bird Steinmetz

... but the husk of a man," said Matilda, "the worthless coat of the chesnut: the man himself is the kernel." ...

— Maid Marian • Thomas Love Peacock

... In the center of each grain of wheat there is a golden spot that gives a yellow cast to the fine flour. That spot is called the germ. When the germ sprouts and begins to increase, the white flour taken up as food begins to decrease. As the plant waxes, the surrounding kernel wanes. The life of the higher means the death of the lower. In the orchard also the flower must fall that the fruit may swell. If the young apple grows large, it must begin by pushing off the blossom. But by losing the lower bud, the tree ...

— The Investment of Influence - A Study of Social Sympathy and Service • Newell Dwight Hillis

... animals betray a felonious desire to appropriate to their own wicked ends the food-stuffs laid up by the palm for the use of its own seedling, the coco-nut has been compelled to inclose this particularly large and rich kernel in a very solid and defensive shell. And, once more, since the palm grows at a very great height from the ground—I have seen them up to ninety feet in favourable circumstances—this shell stands a very good chance of ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

... meaning, and the inner life of the place, and all that. Patience, patience! I don't know anything about it myself yet, and have had only time to look at the shell, which is a very handsome and stately affair; you shall have the kernel, if I ever get at it, in ...

— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

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