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Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 2004, Umberto Eco (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, →ISBN, p. 120, If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From Latin pulverulentus, from pulvis (“dust”). By surface analysis, pulver + -ule + -ent.
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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French:
pulvérulent
— consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
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Italian:
polverulento
— consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
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Latin:
pulverulentus
— consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
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Occitan:
pulverulent
— consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
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Spanish:
pulverulento
— consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder
