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pow⋅der⋅y

  [pou-duh-ree]
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–adjective
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.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME powdry. See powder 1 , -y 1
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pow·der·y   (pou'də-rē)   
adj.  

  1. Composed of or similar to powder.

  2. Dusted or covered with or as if with powder.

  3. Easily made into powder; friable.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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