(adj) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy, Syn. mealy-mouthed, Example:a mealymouthed politician

sealyham

(n) a village in southwestern Wales where the Sealyham terrier was first bred

sealyham terrier

(n) a wire-haired terrier with short legs that was first bred in Sealyham, Syn. Sealyham

blue sage

(n) Texas sage having intensely blue flowers, Syn. Salvia farinacea, mealy sage

farinaceous

(adj) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency, Syn. grainy, mealy, granulose, granular, gritty, coarse-grained, Example:granular sugar; the photographs were grainy and indistinct; it left a mealy residue

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53 Collaborative International Dictionary (GCIDE)

Mealy

a. [ Compar. Mealier superl. Mealiest. ] 1. Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

mealy bug

n. (Zool.), Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum, and related species of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

Mealy-mouthed

a. Using soft words; not straightforward; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. Opposite of frank or blunt. “Mealy-mouthed philanthropies.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Meal"y-mouth`ness n. [1913 Webster]

Japanese-English: EDICT Dictionary EDICT JP-EN Dictionary

雪割り草;雪割草

[ゆきわりそう;ユキワリソウ, yukiwarisou ; yukiwarisou] (n) (1) (See 三角草・みすみそう, 州浜草・すはまそう) hepatica (Hepatica nobilis var. japonica); liverleaf; liverwort; (2) bird's-eye primrose (Primula farinosa subsp. modesta); mealy primrose

German-English: TU-Chemnitz DING Dictionary DING DE-EN Dictionary

mehlig { adj } (Kartoffeln; Äpfel) | mehliger | am mehligsten

mealy | mealier | mealiest

mehlig { adv }; mehlig kochend

mealy

mehlig schmecken

to taste mealy

Mülleramazone { f } [ ornith. ]

Mealy Amazon

Taigabirkenzeisig { m } [ ornith. ]

Mealy Redpoll

Südlicher Glattdelfin { m } [ zool. ]

southern right whale dolphin; mealy-mouthed porpoise (Lissodelphis peronii)

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