Quilly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɪli/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quilly is an adjective meaning Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
Meaning
Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
More Meanings
- With quills; quilled.
Example Sentences
[…] sometimes you may even run across a quilly ball lying right on top of the ledge, or catch one of the numerous porcupine family picking its way leisurely among the rocks.
The fabrick of the wing, as it appears through a moderately magnifying Microscope, seems to be a body consisting of two parts […]; the one is a quilly or finny substance, consisting of several long, slender and variously bended quills or wires, something resembling the veins of leaves […].
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quaillike, quilled, quailish, squillitic, quichelike, quoitlike.
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