mealiness
- a word derived from mealy.
Example Sentences
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“They just seem like the perfect tomato,” she says — clean-slicing, super-juicy, delicious and deep without a hint of mealiness.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2023
As to texture, Schonberger says that mealiness is more likely “a result of growing conditions and plant stress,” with some varieties more inclined to be mealy than others.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2022
My efforts paid off, however: I hit just the right balance between rawhide toughness and too-moist mealiness.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2011
The catalog affects pained astonishment that the Western press should adopt the "quite ridiculous" habit of calling a theft a theft, but that's what it was, and no mealiness of the mouth can change it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The potatoes were soon baked, and possessed a mealiness not usually found in those served up by the family cook.
From Four Months in a Sneak-Box by Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes)
