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floury, a.|ˈflaʊərɪ|
Also 6 flowry.
[f. flour n. + -y1.]
a. Of or pertaining to flour. † Of grain: Yielding flour.
b. Covered or sprinkled with flour or powder.
c. Resembling flour; flourlike, mealy, powdery.
a.1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 649 The stone which grinds the floury corns. 1870Morris Earthly Par. iv. 296 A mill..whose floury duskiness Our hungry souls with many a hope did bless.
b.1826Hood Irish Schoolm. xxix, Some dronish Dominie..That wears a floury head. 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 88 There was blood upon her floury apron.
c.1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 171 Embryo surrounding floury albumen. 1865Milton & Cheadle N.W. Pass. by Land 157 A sleigh, running along in the soft, floury powder at the sides. 1888Powles tr. Kick's Flour Manuf. App. §4. 283 Steam the peeled potatoes until they become quite floury (‘mealy’).
d. floury miller, Abricta curvicosta, an Australian cicada whose body is covered with white down.
1904Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. XXIX. 600 This is a common species in the neighbourhood of Sydney in mid-summer, and is known as the ‘Floury Miller’ on account of the quantity of silvery pubescence covering the body, which makes it look as though it had been dusted with flour. 1925Illustr. Austral. Encycl. I. 269/1 Well-known species [of cicadas] are the Red-eye..and the Floury Miller.., both names well describing the insect's appearance. 1970T. E. Woodward et al. in Insects of Australia (C.S.I.R.O.) xxvi. 413/1 Many striking cicadas occur in Australia... Among these are the ‘double drummer’, Thopha saccata (F.), the ‘floury miller’, Abricta curvicosta Germ., and the ‘green Monday’, Cyclochila australasiae (Don.). |