pulverulent

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Burnt deposits are dark-coloured, or even pulverulent and useless.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

Fronds mostly chaffy, woolly, or pulverulent, rarely smooth.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

P. 1-1.5 cm. convex then plane, subumb. glabrous, viscid, silky at margin, whitish; g. white then fuscescent; s. 2-3 cm. fistulose, contorted, pulverulent; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

When specimens are very old and decaying, the interior may become pulverulent or deliquescent.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

Most Lichens are flat expansions of grayish hue; some of them foliaceous in texture, but never of bright green color; more are crustaceous; some are wholly pulverulent and nearly formless.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa