dustable

English

Etymology

dust +‎ -able

Adjective

dustable (comparative more dustable, superlative most dustable)

1. Describing a pesticide or herbicide that is suitable for crop-dusting.
   • 1999, G. T. Brooks, Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience: The Food-Environment:

     The crop protection product form which perhaps most deserves the descriptor “traditional” is the dustable powder (DP).

2. Capable of being cleaned with a duster.
   • (Can we date this quote by Howard Nemerov and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Small animals
     Began to mooch around and climb up this
     Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom.

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