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Mealy

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Adjective
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meal=y

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective Mealy has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Mealya. 
  •  Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Mealy, adj. (mealier, mealiest)
1 a of or like meal; soft and powdery. b containing meal.
2 (of a complexion) pale.
3 (of a horse) spotty.
4 (in full mealy-mouthed) not outspoken; afraid to use plain expressions.

Idiom
mealy bug any insect of the genus Pseudococcus, infesting vines etc., whose body is covered with white powder.
Derivative
mealiness n.

THESAURUS

Mealy

achromatic, achromic, anemic, ashen, ashy, bled white, bloodless, branny, cadaverous, chalklike, chalky, chloranemic, colorless, comminute, comminuted, crushed, dead, deadly pale, deathly pale, detrital, detrited, dim, dimmed, dingy, discolored, disintegrated, dull, dusty, efflorescent, etiolated, exsanguinated, exsanguine, exsanguineous, faded, faint, fallow, farinaceous, fine, flaky, flat, floury, furfuraceous, ghastly, gone to dust, grated, gray, ground, haggard, hueless, hypochromic, impalpable, lackluster, leaden, levigated, livid, lurid, lusterless, mat, milled, muddy, neutral, pale, pale as death, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pestled, powdered, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, sallow, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, sickly, tallow-faced, toneless, triturated, uncolored, wan, washed-out, waxen, weak, whey-faced, white

ROGET THESAURUS

Mealy

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.

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