granular

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

granular
    adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in
           texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the
           photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy
           residue" [syn: {farinaceous}, {coarse-grained}, {grainy},
           {granular}, {granulose}, {gritty}, {mealy}]
    2: having a granular structure like that of chondrites [syn:
       {chondritic}, {granular}] [ant: {achondritic}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

granular \gran"u*lar\ (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[~e]r), a. [Cf. F.
   granulaire. See {Granule}.]
   Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular
   substance.
   [1913 Webster]

   {granular limestone}, crystalline limestone, or marble,
      having a granular structure.
      [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "granular":
      arenaceous, arenarious, atomic, breccial, brecciated, coarse,
      coarse-grained, comminuted, corpuscular, cross-grained, embryonic,
      evanescent, germinal, grained, grainy, granulate, granulated,
      gravelly, gritty, gross, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable,
      inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible,
      microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, pebbled, pebbly, rough,
      sabulous, sandy, shingled, shingly, subatomic, tenuous, thin,
      ultramicroscopic, unrefined, unseeable

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