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Powdery
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Part of speech: adjective (a.)
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.