Hypertext Webster Gateway: "powdery"
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) 1.7 (wn)
powdery
adj 1: consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery
snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated
sugar by grinding" [syn: {powdered}, {pulverized}, {pulverised},
{small-grained}, {fine-grained}]
2: as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a
powdery blue"
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