pulverable

English

Adjective

pulverable (not comparable)

1. Capable of being reduced to fine powder.
   • 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulverable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)