Meaning of POWDERY
| Pronunciation: | | 'pawduree
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- [adj] as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
- [adj] consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"
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| | Synonyms: | | fine, fine-grained, light, light-colored, powdered, pulverised, pulverized, small-grained |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pow"der*y\, a.
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery
spar.
2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery
bloom on plums.
3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. ``The powdery
snow.'' --Wordsworth.
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| | Related Terms: | | branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, impalpable, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled, powdered, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, triturated |
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