mealy

Plural: mealies

Adjective

• Having a soft, dry, and crumbly texture.
• containing meal or made of meal

Adjective Satellite

• composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency
  • "it left a mealy residue"

Adj

• Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
• Of the pale yellow color of a canary.

Noun

• A canary of a pale yellow color.

Examples

• Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
• Some words sound MEALY when spoken, yet score wonderfully on the board.

Synonyms

coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty

Related Words

cornmealy

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