Found 2 items, similar to powdery.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: powdery
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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Powdery
Powdery
\Pow"der*y\, a.
1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery
spar.
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2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery
bloom on plums.
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3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
“The powdery
snow.” --Wordsworth.
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