powdery

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

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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36 Moby Thesaurus words for "powdery":
      branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed,
      detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent,
      farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust,
      grated, ground, impalpable, levigated, mealy, milled, pestled,
      powdered, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder,
      scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded,
      triturated