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powdery |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Powdery \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: powdery adj 1: consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: {powdered}, {pulverized}, {small-grained}, {fine-grained}] 2: as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
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