powdery

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Powdery mildew, unlike most other fungal diseases, doesn’t need moist conditions to grow.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 6, 2023

Powdery scab is mainly a cosmetic issue, turning nice-looking potatoes into unappetizing, lesion-covered blobs.

From Salon • May 31, 2023

Powdery mildew certainly sounds unappealing, but for wheat farmers the fungus can mean a serious hit to the pocketbook.

From Science Magazine • Feb. 8, 2022

Powdery snow, the kind you can clear with a leaf blower, forms when critically thick air layers aloft are saturated enough and cold enough for highly efficient snow crystal growth.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2021

Powdery dust stood in deep windrows along fence lines.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown