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Definition of Floury
1. Adjective. Resembling flour in fine powdery texture. "A floury clay"
Definition of Floury
1. a. Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour.
Definition of Floury
1. Adjective. Resembling flour. ¹
2. Adjective. Covered in flour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Floury
1. resembling flour [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Floury
Literary usage of Floury
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Physical Basis of Heredity by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1919)
"floury corns have an endosperm, that is almost wholly made up of cells ...
Hayes and East have shown that if a floury corn be used as the mother and a flint ..."
2. Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 by Joseph Warren Chapman (1904)
"FLORENCE (see also Fleury, Florance, Florey, floury, Flowers, ... floury (see
also Florence), Mary, and John Hooker, Dec. 28, 1732. c. R. 3. ..."
3. Plant Genetics by John Merle Coulter, Merle Crowe Coulter (1918)
"cross (corneous pollen and floury ovule), the F, generation was all floury.
This result certainly suggests maternal inheritance, for in both cases it is the ..."
4. Women Artists in All Ages and Countries by Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1859)
"Pupils of floury and Cogniet.—Madame Chaudet.—Kinds of Painting in Vogue.—The
Princess Marie d'Orleans.—Her Statue of the Maid of Orleans.—Her last Work. ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"... permission of the Cardinal de floury to have On the death of Cardinal de
Fleury, in 1743, Voltaire aspired (o fill his place in the Académie Française. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1885)
"more floury material. The residue chiefly consisted of quartz-grains, grains of
shale and coal, and some bits of iron pyrites. The specimens figured in the ..."
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