friable ground
71powderiness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Having consistency of fine, dry particles Nouns 1. powderiness; grittiness, sandiness; efflorescence; friability. See vapor. 2. (powdery substance) powder, dust, sand, sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour,… …
72mealy-mouthed — afraid to say what one really thinks, 1570s; first element perhaps from O.E. milisc sweet, from P.Gmc. *meduz honey (see MEAD (Cf. mead) (n.1)), which suits the sense, but if the Old English word did not survive long enough to be the source of… …
73mealy — adj 1. crumbly, friable, granular, granulated, powdered, ground; flaky, floculent, scaly, scurfy. 2. farinaceous, oatlike, branny, branlike, furfura ceous …
74powdery — adj 1. granulated, pulverulent, ground, fine; dusty, ashy, gritty, sandlike, sandy, arenose, arenaceous, sootlike, sooty; pulverized, crushed, mortared, comminuted, triturated, levigated, smashed, mashed, Sl. smushed; grated, stoned, milled,… …
75mould — I. /moʊld / (say mohld) noun 1. a hollow form or matrix for giving a particular shape to something in a molten or plastic state. 2. that on or about which something is formed or made. 3. something formed in or on a mould: a mould of jelly. 4. the …
76short — [adj1] abridged abbreviate, abbreviated, aphoristic, bare, boiled down, breviloquent, brief, compendiary, compendious, compressed, concise, condensed, curtailed, curtate, cut short, cut to the bone*, decreased, decurtate, diminished, epigrammatic …
77copaline — noun partly mineralized copal dug from the ground • Syn: ↑copalite, ↑fossil copal • Hypernyms: ↑copal * * * noun see copalite * * * copaline (ˈkəʊpəlɪn) [f …
