a. rare. [f. L. quern-us, f. quercus oak + -AL.]
† 1. Made of oak-leaves; oaken. Obs. rare–1.
1599. Thynne, Animadv. (1875), 49. The Quernall crowne gyven to those whiche had saued a cytyzen.
2. Bot. Quernal alliance, Lindley’s name for his ‘alliance’ of diclinous exogens, containing the orders Corylaceæ and Juglandaceæ.
1846. Lindley, Veget. Kingd., 289. If it were not for the minute embryo … it might take its place in the Quernal Alliance.
