Adjective:

पाउडर लगा हुआ, ख़स्ता, चूर्ण-सदृश, बुकनी के समान, पीसा हुआ, चुरमुरा, बुकनीदार,

powdery's Usage Examples:

Others have a special faculty of consuming dry, powdery vegetable and animal refuse, and are liable to multiply in manufactured products of this nature, such as mouldy cheese.

Tin is removed mainly as a powdery mixture of stannate of lead and lead oxide, arsenic and antimony as a slagged mixture of arsenate and antimonate of lead and lead oxide.

It has in general one value for the powdery metal as obtained by reduction of the oxide in hydrogen below the melting point of the metal, another for the metal in the state which it assumes spontaneously on freezing, and this latter value, in general, is modified by hammering, rolling, drawing, 'c. These mechanical operations do not necessarily add to the density; stamping, it is true, does so necessarily, but rolling or drawing occasionally causes a diminution of the density.

The powdery metal burns readily in air; the crystalline metal requires to be heated in an oxyhydrogen flame before it catches fire.

The mineral had, however, been earlier known as a blue powdery substance, called "blue ironearth," met with in peat-bogs, in bog iron-ore, or with fossil bones and shells.

Then the walls of the mother-cells are absorbed, and the pollengrains float freely in the fluid of the pollen-sacs, which gradually disappears, and the mature grains form a powdery mass within the anther.

These Arka-tagh mountains are built up, at all events superficially, of sand and powdery, finely sifted disintegrated material.

Plucking one from the bush, she rolled the berry in her hand, removing the powdery haze from its surface.

The anther consists of lobes containing the minute powdery pollen grains, which, when mature, are discharged by a fissure or opening of some sort.

A yellowish powdery mixture of zinc and lead oxides collects on the lead; it is skimmed off and sold as paint.

Synonyms:

fine, pulverized, small-grained, fine-grained, powdered, pulverised,

Antonyms:

impure, thick, inelegant, imprecise, coarse,