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powdery

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1. powdery - Adjective

2. powdery - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

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powdered cellulose Source: Internet

powdery snow Source: Internet

pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding Source: Internet

a powdery blue Source: Internet

A gleba which is powdery on maturity is a feature of true puffballs, stalked puffballs and earthstars. Source: Internet

As a result, for most mushrooms, if the cap is cut off and placed gill-side-down overnight, a powdery impression reflecting the shape of the gills (or pores, or spines, etc.) is formed (when the fruit body is sporulating). Source: Internet

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