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Definitions of kernel
  1. noun
    the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  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"

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  3. noun
    a single whole grain of a cereal
    "a kernel of corn"
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  • corn tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
  • corn the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal
  • popcorn corn having small ears and kernels that burst when exposed to dry heat
  • popcorn small kernels of corn exploded by heat
  • pistachio nut of Mediterranean trees having an edible green kernel
  • nutshell the shell around the kernel of a nut
  • bunt fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores
  • maize tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
  • corncob the hard cylindrical core that bears the kernels of an ear of corn
  • zea mays tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times
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