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# powdery

«powdery» in Mova's school dictionary: **Like powder: fine, dry and soft** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (powdery, more powdery, most powdery)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Like powder: fine, dry and soft. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#m1)

2) Covered with powder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, flour and chalk are powdery solids. Skiers love powdery snow.

### examples

- The snow was soft and powdery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x1)
- Flour is a powdery solid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x2)
- The moth's wings were powdery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x3)
- Chalk leaves a powdery mark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x4)
- The powdery sand blew in the wind. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x5)
- Skiers love powdery snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#x6)

### note

From «powder» + «-y».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «powdery» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.