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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.
1.
Addicted to lying and rolling in the dust, as fowls.Definition 2024
pulverulent
pulverulent
See also: pulvérulent
English
Alternative forms
Adjective
pulverulent (comparative more pulverulent, superlative most pulverulent)
- 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.
- 1900, H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, ch. 15,
Related terms
Translations
consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
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References
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