Meal·y 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.
2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
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mealy
adj : composed of or covered with relatively large particles;
"granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained,
grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, sandy]
[also: mealiest, mealier]