powdery

Definition of Powdery in English :

consisting of fine particles

Example Sentences:
'powdered cellulose'
'powdery snow'
'pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding'

2. powdery

as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder

Example Sentences:
'a powdery blue'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Powdery

adjective

1.

of, like, or in the form of powder

2.

easily crumbled into powder

3.

covered with or as with powder

adj.

1. Composed of or similar to powder.

2. Dusted or covered with or as if with powder.

3. Easily made into powder; friable.