pulverulent

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
23
Letters
11
Pronunciation
/pʌlˈvɛɹjələnt/

Definition of pulverulent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
    “The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Latin pulverulentus, from pulvis (“dust”). By surface analysis, pulver + -ule + -ent.

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