a. [f. KERNEL sb.1 + -LESS.] Without a kernel.
1879. trans. Haeckel’s Evol. Man, II. xvi. 51. We … assumed that the egg-cell … falls back into the kernel-less cytod stage.
1881. Graphic, 15 Oct., 402/1. To pick up and crack the promising well-husked nut, but only to find it kernelless.
