"mealy" meaning in English

See mealy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /miːli/ Forms: mealier [comparative], mealiest [superlative]
Rhymes: -iːli Etymology: From meal + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|meal|y}} meal + -y Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} mealy (comparative mealier, superlative mealiest)
  1. Resembling meal (the foodstuff). Translations (resembling meal): брашнян (brašnjan) (Bulgarian), farineux [masculine] (French), farinôs (Friulian), fariñento (Galician), mehlig (German), αλευρώδης (alevródis) [masculine] (Greek), motuhanga (Maori), māngaro (Maori), mączny (Polish), farinhento (Portuguese), făinos (Romanian), harinoso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-mealy-en-adj-FSk06vMN Disambiguation of 'resembling meal': 100 0
  2. Of the pale yellow color of a canary.
    Sense id: en-mealy-en-adj-7C25-FxD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -y, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with Friulian translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 46 45 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -y: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 6 47 48 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 0 48 52 Disambiguation of Terms with Friulian translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 0 47 53 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 5 47 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 6 46 48 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 0 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: mealy bug, mealy-mouthed Related terms: cornmealy

Noun

IPA: /miːli/ Forms: mealies [plural]
Rhymes: -iːli Etymology: From meal + -y. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|meal|y}} meal + -y Head templates: {{en-noun}} mealy (plural mealies)
  1. A canary of a pale yellow color.
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Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.