pulverulent

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When the vein-stuff has been raised it is reduced to a pulverulent condition, to liberate the gold from the gangue.

From The Romance of Industry and Invention by Cochrane, Robert

Its wood is of a yellow colour merging into green, and has an almost pulverulent fracture; the flowers are yellow and conspicuous; and the fruit is dry and 4-winged.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

P. very acuminate, striate, flocculose; g. decur. branched; s. filiform, pulverulent, the slight bulb hairy; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. elliptic-oblong then campan. striate, snow-white edge becoming rosy, pulverulent, with tawny flecks; g. free; s.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. 2-5 cm. campan. then exp. pulverulent then scaly, silky, dingy brownish yellow; g. nearly or quite free, deep rose to blood-red; s. 3-5 cm. floccosely pulverulent up to imperfect ring, dull red, hollow; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George