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pellety

pellety adjective: having a consistency like pellets.

pellety: having a consistency like pellets
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Adjective

pellety (comparative more pellety, superlative most pellety)

  1. Having a consistency like pellets.
  2. Full of pellets.
    • Round beaks are at / work in the pellety nest, / working. Owl is an eye / in the barn.1963, George MacBeth, Owl
  3. (not comparable) Semé (strewn) with pellets (roundels sable).
    • : -gules, a hind trippant or between three pheons or, within a bordure engrailed argent pellety. The printed version of Glover , which is frequently incorrect and is, incidentally, responsible for the use of many false[…]1933, James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur
    • A dragon's head erased Or pellety eared and langued Gules.1998, Joan Corder, John Blatchly, A Dictionary of Suffolk Crests: Heraldic Crests of Suffolk Families, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 319

Forms of pellety

comparativemore pellety
superlativemost pellety
alternative formpelletty

Origin of pellety

From pellet + -y.

Questions about pellety

What does pellety mean?
Pellety means having a consistency like pellets.
What part of speech is pellety?
Pellety is an adjective.

Words near pellety in the dictionary

  1. Pellett
  2. pellettable
  3. pelletted
  4. Pelletts
  5. pelletty
  6. pellety
  7. Pellew
  8. Pelley
  9. Pelleys
  10. Pellian
  11. Pellicano

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