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单词 quernal
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quernaladj.

Forms: 1500s quernall, 1800s quernal; Scottish pre-1700 quernall.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin quernus , -al suffix1.
Etymology: < classical Latin quernus belonging to the oak, made of oak-wood, made of oak-leaves ( < quercus oak (see quercine adj.) + -nus, suffix forming adjectives) + -al suffix1.
Obsolete. rare.
1. Made of oak-leaves; oaken.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [adjective] > made of oak leaves
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1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 49 The Quernall crowne gyven to those whiche had saued a cytyzen.
1638 H. Adamson Muses Threnodie 18 His two Mars-like sons, Do for all ages wear the quernall crowns.
2. Botany. In J. Lindley's terminology: designating or belonging to an alliance of plants typified by the oak and containing his natural orders Corylaceae and Juglandaceae (more or less corresponding to the modern families Fagaceae and Juglandaceae, and the subfamily Coryloideae of the Betulaceae).
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1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 289 If it were not for the minute embryo..it might take its place in the Quernal Alliance.
1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 290 Quernal Exogens.
1881 P. Henderson Handbk. Plants 374/2 Juglandaceae, a natural order of monochlamydeous plants belonging to Lindley's Quernal Alliance of diclinous Exogens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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