Pulverulent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Made of, covered with, or crumbling to fine powder or dust.
  • adj. Dusty; crumbly.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Dusty; consisting of fine powder; powdery: as, calcareous stone is sometimes found in the pulverulent form.
  • In zoology, finely powdery or dusty, as a surface; especially, covered as if powdered with very minute scales, as an insect.
  • In botany: Covered as if with powder or dust; pulveraceous: said of surfaces.
  • Of very slight cohesion: said of tissues.
  • Addicted to lying and rolling in the dust, as fowls.
  • Word Usage
    "These are plants growing in sea or fresh water, or on damp surfaces, with a filamentous, or more rarely a leaf-like pulverulent or gelatinous thallus; the last two forms essentially microscopic."
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