pulverable

English

Adjective

pulverable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being reduced to fine powder.

   Synonym: pulverisable

   • 1680, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Notes about the Producibleness of Chemical Principles:

     And an inquisitive traveller assured me, that whilst he was in fome parts of the Indies, having furnish'd himself with some liquid substances from wounded plants; as soon as he came near Europe they turned into consistent and pulverable

Related terms

• pulverise

References

• “pulverable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.