Mealy

Quick meaning: Mealy is an adjective meaning Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

Meaning

Resembling meal (the foodstuff).

More Meanings

1. Of the pale yellow color of a canary.
2. A canary of a pale yellow color.

Example Sentences

Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.

I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish ^([sic]) the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.

The clear Norwich canaries, as well as the evenly marked, the crested, the ticked, the green, and the unevenly marked, are each divided into two separate classes, i.e., jonques and mealies.

That it is a cross-breed there can be no doubt, from the fact that after a year or two the brilliant colours, both orange and black, begin to fade—the orange fading into a mealy tint, and the black to a dingy grey.

Word Forms

• mealier
• mealiest
• mealies

Synonyms for mealy

Depending on context, synonyms include coarse, gritty, farinaceous, grainy, granular, coarse-grained.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grainy, farinaceous, granular, sandy, gritty, coarse-grained.

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