Definition of meagres Meagres

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What does meagres mean?

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Adjective
meagre - deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"
		meager, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy
		ample affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply"
		insufficient, deficient of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement; "insufficient funds"
		minimal, minimum the least possible; "needed to enforce minimal standards"; "her grades were minimal"; "minimum wage"; "a minimal charge for the service"
		scarce deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand; "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
		adequacy, sufficiency the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule"
		scanty, spare, bare thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise"
		exiguous extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"
		hand-to-mouth providing only bare essentials; "a hand-to-mouth existence"
		hardscrabble barely satisfying a lower standard; "the sharecropper's hardscrabble life"

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meagre (Noun)
An edible fish, Argyrosomus regius .
meagre (Verb)
To make lean.
meagre (Adjective)
Having little flesh; lean; thin.
meagre (Adjective)
Deficient or inferior in amount, quality or extent; paltry; scanty; inadequate; unsatisfying.

meagre (a.)
Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
meagre (a.)
Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
meagre (a.)
Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
meagre (v. t.)
To make lean.
meagre (n.)
A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.