powdery

powdery
/pow"deuh ree/, adj.
1. consisting of or resembling powder: powdery sand; powdery clouds.
2. easily reduced to powder: powdery plaster.
3. sprinkled or covered with or as with powder: flowers powdery with pollen.
[1400-50; late ME powdry. See POWDER1, -Y1]

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