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Kerite
- - A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy.
Kermes
- - The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Kermes ilices formerly Coccus ilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several species of oak near the Mediterranean; also, the dye obtained from them. They are round, about the size of a pea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used in dyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, and were used in medicine.
Kermit
- unknown - Green puppet character from The Muppets TV show.
Kerned
- verb - furnish with a kern
- remove a portion of space between (adjacent letters)
Kernel
- noun - a single whole grain of a cereal; "a kernel of corn"
- Core of computers operating system, residing in memory and responsible for resource allocations, file management and security
- Corn
- the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story"
- 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"
Kerria
- unknown - Deciduous shrub of the rose family
Kersey
- - A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.
Kirgiz
- noun - a landlocked republic in west central Asia bordering on northwestern China; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
- a member of a people of Turkic speech and Mongolian race inhabiting vast regions of central Siberia
- the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz