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Definition of Mildewy
1. affected with or resembling mildew [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mildewy
Literary usage of Mildewy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1841)
"It may be advanced, that wheat growing near Barberry bushes is rendered mildewy
by infection from the parasitic Fungus frequently abounding on those trees; ..."
2. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"... I try to imitate it, — expressive of a mind which has reached the gelatinous
mildewy stage in the mortification of all healthy and courageous thought. ..."
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