powdery
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˈpaʊdəɹi/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English powder English -y English powdery From powder + -y.
- Of or pertaining to powder.
“powdery drink”
“We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.”
- Having a lot of powder.