mealy
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英文释义
名词 n.
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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.
形容词 adj.
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Resembling meal (the foodstuff).
— Below the hole the mice made in the woodwork was a pile of mealy sawdust.
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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.
词源
词源 1
From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.
词源 2
From meal + -y. Cognate with German mehlig.
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