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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]