| meal | (noun) the food served and eaten at one time | Synonyms: repast |
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| (noun) coarsely ground foodstuff; especially seeds of various cereal grasses or pulse | - |
| (noun) any of the occasions for eating food that occur by custom or habit at more or less fixed times | - |
| mealberry | (noun) evergreen mat-forming shrub of North America and northern Eurasia having small white flowers and red berries; leaves turn red in autumn | Synonyms: Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, bear's grape, common bearberry, creashak, hog cranberry, mountain box, red bearberry, sand berry, sandberry, wild cranberry |
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| mealie | (noun) an ear of corn | - |
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| mealtime | (noun) the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten | - |
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| mealworm | (noun) the larva of beetles of the family Tenebrionidae | - |
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| mealy | (adjective) containing meal or made of meal | - |
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| (adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency | Synonyms: coarse-grained, farinaceous, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty |
| mealybug | (noun) scalelike plant-eating insect coated with a powdery waxy secretion; destructive especially of fruit trees | Synonyms: mealy bug |
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| mealymouthed | (adjective) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy | Synonyms: mealy-mouthed |
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