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  • 41shredded — Synonyms and related words: branny, chalklike, chalky, cleft, cloven, comminute, comminuted, cracked, crushed, cut, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated,… …

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  • 42powderiness — (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,… …

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  • 43scurfy — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. flaky, scabby, squamous, flocculent, furfuraceous. See layer …

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  • 44Pulverulence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pulverulence >N =>(State of powder.) GRP: N State of powder. Sgm: N State of powder. powderiness powderiness pulverulence Sgm: N State of powder. sandiness sandiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N State of powder.… …

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  • 45lentiginous — a. Scurfy, scabby, scaly, scabbed, furfuraceous …

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  • 46scurfy — a. Scabby, scabbed, scurvy, scaly, lentiginous, furfuraceous …

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  • 47scaly — adjective 1) the dragon s scaly hide Syn: technical squamous, squamate, squamose, lamellate, lamellar, lamelliform, lamellose 2) scaly patches of dead skin Syn: flaky, dry, flaking, scurfy, peeling …

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  • 48scurfy —   Covered with small papery scales, e.g. the female cone peduncles of Ceratozamia fuscoviridis.   See also furfuraceous …

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  • 49powdery — 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,… …

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  • 50scaly — adj 1. scalelike, squamous, squamosal, squamose, squamulose, scurfy, furfuraceous; Zool. scutate, lamellate, lamellar. 2. peeling, flaking, flaky …

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