Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being pulverized. Also spelled
pulverisable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Able to be
pulverized .
Etymologies
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pulverize + -able
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Examples
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The ditch is hence shingly, whereas an equal depth in the cultivated parts would meet nothing but a sandy, light, easily pulverizable brownish-yellow soil, tenacious, and very slippery when wet.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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This colouring matter he succeeded in obtaining pure, in the form of a purple-brown friable mass, pulverizable to a fine red powder, transparent when viewed by the microscope, and soluble both in water and alcohol in all proportions.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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