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powdery

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  1. 1. a. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. Source: opted
  2. 2. a. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. Source: opted
  3. 3. a. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. Source: opted
  4. 4. adj. consisting of fine particles Source: wordnet
  5. 5. adj. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder Source: wordnet
  6. 6. 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. Source: webster
  7. 7. j:100 s. as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder Source: ecdict

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