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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. containing meal or made of meal;

2. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency;
- Example: "granular sugar"
- Example: "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"
- Example: "it left a mealy residue"
[syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mealy adj 1: containing meal or made of meal 2: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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