slovo | definícia |
mealy (encz) | mealy,moučný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Mealy (gcide) | Mealy \Meal"y\ (m[=e]l"[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.
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2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the
mealy wings of an insect. --Shak.
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mealy (wn) | mealy
adj 1: containing meal or made of meal
2: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in
texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs
were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn:
farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular,
granulose, gritty, mealy] |
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comstocks mealybug (mass) | Comstock's mealybug
- Pseudococcus comstocki |
citrophilous mealybug (encz) | citrophilous mealybug, n: |
citrophilus mealybug (encz) | citrophilus mealybug, n: |
citrus mealybug (encz) | citrus mealybug, n: |
mealy bug (encz) | mealy bug, n: |
mealy sage (encz) | mealy sage, n: |
mealy-mouthed (encz) | mealy-mouthed,vyhýbavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
mealybug (encz) | mealybug,červec n: Zdeněk Brožmealybug,škodlivý hmyz Zdeněk Brož |
mealymouthed (encz) | mealymouthed,vyhýbavý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Mealy (gcide) | Mealy \Meal"y\ (m[=e]l"[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.
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2. Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the
mealy wings of an insect. --Shak.
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mealy bug (gcide) | mealybug \meal"y*bug`\, mealy bug \mealy bug\
(m[=e]l"[y^]*b[u^]g`), 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.
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mealybug (gcide) | mealybug \meal"y*bug`\, mealy bug \mealy bug\
(m[=e]l"[y^]*b[u^]g`), 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.
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Mealy-mouthed (gcide) | Mealy-mouthed \Meal"y-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.
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She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks
so plain. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster] -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.
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Mealy-mouthness (gcide) | Mealy-mouthed \Meal"y-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.
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She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks
so plain. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster] -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.
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citrophilous mealybug (wn) | citrophilous mealybug
n 1: destructive especially to citrus [syn: {citrophilous
mealybug}, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis] |
citrophilus mealybug (wn) | citrophilus mealybug
n 1: destructive especially to citrus [syn: {citrophilous
mealybug}, citrophilus mealybug, Pseudococcus fragilis] |
citrus mealybug (wn) | citrus mealybug
n 1: feeds on a wide variety of cultivated plants but especially
destructive to citrus [syn: citrus mealybug, {Planococcus
citri}] |
comstock mealybug (wn) | Comstock mealybug
n 1: Asiatic insect introduced accidentally into United States;
pest on citrus and apple trees [syn: Comstock mealybug,
Comstock's mealybug, Pseudococcus comstocki] |
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