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"word": "mealy bug"
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"text": "Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust."
}
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"Resembling meal (the foodstuff)."
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "brašnjan",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "брашнян"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "farineux"
},
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"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "farinôs"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "fariñento"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "mehlig"
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"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "alevródis",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αλευρώδης"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "motuhanga"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "māngaro"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "mączny"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "farinhento"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "făinos"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "harinoso"
}
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"ref": "1875, The Bird-Keeper's Guide and Companion, page 19",
"text": "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.",
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}
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"The pale yellow color of a canary."
],
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]
}
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},
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"rhymes": "-iːli"
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"text": "Coordinate term: jonque"
},
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"ref": "1884, Robert Linlithgow Wallace, The Canary Book, page 225",
"text": "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.",
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"A canary of a pale yellow color."
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],
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},
{
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},
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"homophone": "mealie"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "brašnjan",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "брашнян"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "farineux"
},
{
"code": "fur",
"lang": "Friulian",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "farinôs"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "fariñento"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "mehlig"
},
{
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"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "alevródis",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "αλευρώδης"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "motuhanga"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "māngaro"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "mączny"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "farinhento"
},
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"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "făinos"
},
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "resembling meal",
"word": "harinoso"
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"word": "mealy"
}
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"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
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"Rhymes:English/iːli",
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"text": "Coordinate term: jonque"
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"ref": "1800, The New and Complete Canary-bird Fancier, page 8",
"text": "I know not, indeed, if the artist could give the beautiful orange which distinguish the jonque, or the mellowness of tint that pervades the mealy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1884, Robert Linlithgow Wallace, The Canary Book, page 225",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"A canary of a pale yellow color."
]
}
],
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"ipa": "/miːli/"
},
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"rhymes": "-iːli"
},
{
"homophone": "mealie"
}
],
"word": "mealy"
}
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