crumbly

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

crumbly
    adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;
           "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
           "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies"
           [syn: {crumbly}, {friable}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crumbly \Crum"bly\ (-bl[y^]), a.
   Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil."
   --Hawthorne.

   Syn: crimp.
        [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "crumbly":
      breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby,
      crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crump, crushable, dainty,
      delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy,
      fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack,
      gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light,
      lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, pulverizable,
      pulverulent, puny, rubbery, scissile, shatterable, shattery,
      shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, triturable,
      unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish