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# powdery

adjective (powdery, more powdery, most powdery)

«powdery» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Like powder: fine, dry and soft. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#m1)
2. Covered with powder. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/#m2)

### In the lessons

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

### Examples

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

### Note

From «powder» + «-y».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «powdery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/powdery/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«powdery» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/powdery.html) on Mova free.