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Meaning of quilly | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B1
/ˈkwɪli/

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to or resembling a quill.
  2. With quills; quilled.

Examples

“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 […].”
“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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