mealy means Resembling meal (the foodstuff). Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
adj
- Resembling meal (the foodstuff).“Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.”
- Of the pale yellow color of a canary.“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.”
name
- A surname from Irish.
noun
- A canary of a pale yellow color.“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.”