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Adjective crumbly has 1 sense

• crumbly(s = adj.all) friable - easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach"; "crumbly cookies"
Derived forms noun crumb₃, noun crumbliness₁

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crumbly

breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crump, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, pulverizable, pulverulent, puny, rubbery, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, triturable, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish

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Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.

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