Mealy
Meal"y
(ml"), 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.
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[1913 Webster]
meal"y*bug`
,mealy bug
(ml"*bg`), n. (Zol.), 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]
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