arenaceous
51sandy — Synonyms and related words: Saharan, anhydrous, arenaceous, arenarious, arid, athirst, aureate, auric, beige, bone dry, breccial, brecciated, buff, buff yellow, canary, canary yellow, citron, citron yellow, craggy, cream, creamy, crystal,… …
52shingled — Synonyms and related words: arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, bridging, craggy, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, imbricate, incumbent, lapideous, lapping, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic …
53powderiness — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Having consistency of fine, dry particles Nouns 1. powderiness; grittiness, sandiness; efflorescence; friability. See vapor. 2. (powdery substance) powder, dust, sand, sawdust; grit; meal, bran, flour,… …
54sandy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. gritty, granular, grainy, arenaceous. See powderiness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Containing sand; said especially of soil ] Syn. light, loose, permeable, porous, easy to work, easily worked,… …
55Pulverulence — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pulverulence >N =>(State of powder.) GRP: N State of powder. Sgm: N State of powder. powderiness powderiness pulverulence Sgm: N State of powder. sandiness sandiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N State of powder.… …
56arena — [17] The original sense of Latin (h)arēna was ‘sand’ (hence the English technical term argosy 34 arenaceous ‘sandy’ [17]). The central, ‘stage’ area of classical amphitheatres, where contests were held, was covered with sand (to soak up the… …
57sandy — a. 1. Sabulous, gritty. 2. Unstable, shifting, arenaceous. 3. Yellowish red, sand colored …
58gritty — adj 1. sandy, sandlike, sabulous, arenaceous, arenose, arenulous, Obs. arenarious, Obs. are nate, Obs. arenated; grainy, grained, granular, granulate, granulated; gravelly, pebbly, pebbled, shingly, shingled; dusty, powdery, pulverous,… …
59powdery — adj 1. granulated, pulverulent, ground, fine; dusty, ashy, gritty, sandlike, sandy, arenose, arenaceous, sootlike, sooty; pulverized, crushed, mortared, comminuted, triturated, levigated, smashed, mashed, Sl. smushed; grated, stoned, milled,… …
60dusty — [adj] filled with or covered with powdery particles arenaceous, arenose, chalky, crumbly, dirty, friable, granular, grubby, sandy, sooty, unclean, undusted, unswept, untouched; concept 485 Ant. clean, clear …
