Mealy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mealy \Meal"y\ (m[=e]l"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Mealier}; superl.
     {Mealiest}.]
     1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry,
        and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling
        meal; as, a mealy potato.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the
        mealy wings of an insect. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster] mealybug

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mealy
       adj : composed of or covered with relatively large particles;
             "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: {farinaceous}, {coarse-grained},
              {grainy}, {granular}, {granulose}, {gritty}, {sandy}]
       [also: {mealiest}, {mealier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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