mealy
pronunciation
How to pronounce mealy in British English:
UK [ˈmi:li]
How to pronounce mealy in American English:
US [ˈmiːli]
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- Adjective:
- composed of or covered with relatively large particles
Word Origin
- mealy (adj.)
- "resembling or consisting of meal," 1530s, from meal (n.2) + -y (2). Related: Mealiness.
Example
- 1. The teacher mealy scratched the surface of the subject .
- 2. Studies on the physiological processes related to mealy flesh of apple fruit , cv . ‘ starking ' during storage
- 3. Generating 2K pseudo-random sequences using quasi-chaotic mealy limited state machine
- 4. Shrubs 1-1.5 m tall , young branchlets tomentose with white stellate and verticillate hairs , soon mealy and then glabrous .
- 5. Leaves opposite , simple , sometimes lobed , usually with large gland patches near base , often abaxially gray mealy .