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. 1591 Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 649 The stone which grinds the floury corns. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. iv. 296 A mill..whose floury duskiness Our hungry souls with many a hope did bless. |
| b. 1826 Hood Irish Schoolm. xxix, Some dronish Dominie..That wears a floury head. 1884 Century Mag. XXVIII. 88 There was blood upon her floury apron. |
| c. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 171 Embryo surrounding floury albumen. 1865 Milton & Cheadle N.W. Pass. by Land 157 A sleigh, running along in the soft, floury powder at the sides. 1888 Powles 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.
| 1904 Proc. 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. 1925 Illustr. 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. 1970 T. 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.). |