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Pulverulous vs Pulverulent - What's the difference?

pulverulous | pulverulent | Alternative forms |

Pulverulent is a alternative form of pulverulous.



As adjectives the difference between pulverulous and pulverulent

is that pulverulous is alternative form of lang=en while pulverulent is consisting of, covered with, or disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.

pulverulous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

    • pulverulent

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pulverulentous * pulverulous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Consisting]] of, covered with, or [[disintegrate, disintegrating into a fine powder; powdery; dusty.
  • *1900 , , Love and Mr. Lewisham , ch. 15,
  • *:The first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand.
  • *2004 , (Geoffrey Brock. trans.), The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana , ISBN 9780156030434, p. 120,
  • *:If a cellar prefigures the underworld, an attic promises a rather threadbare paradise, where the dead bodies appear in a pulverulent glow.

    • Related terms

    * pulverulence * pulverulently

    References

    *" pulverulent" at OneLook® Dictionary Search .