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Webster 1913 Edition


Pulverulent

Pul-ver′u-lent

,
Adj.
[L.
pulverulentus
, fr.
pulvis
,
pulveris
, dust, powder: cf. F.
pulvérulent
.]
Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pulverulent

PULVER'ULENT

,
Adj.
Dusty; consisting of fine powder; powdery.
1.
Addicted to lying and rolling in the dust, as fowls.

Definition 2024


pulverulent

pulverulent

See also: pulvérulent

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pulverulent (comparative more pulverulent, superlative most pulverulent)

  1. Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
    • 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 15,
      The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
    • 2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, ISBN 9780156030434, p. 120,
      If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.

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