kernel

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a single whole grain of a cereal

   A kernel of corn.

2. 2
   noun

   the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone

   Black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell.

Common collocations

• palm kernel Noun + noun

From Middle English kernel, kirnel, kürnel, from Old English cyrnel, from Proto-West Germanic *kurnil, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kurną (“seed, grain, corn”), equivalent to corn + -le. Cognate with Yiddish קערנדל (kerndl), Middle Dutch kernel, cornel, Middle High German kornel. Related also to Old Norse kjarni (“kernel”).

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