dustable
English
Etymology
dust + -able
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʌstəbəl/
Adjective
dustable (comparative more dustable, superlative most dustable)
- Of a pesticide or herbicide: suitable for crop-dusting.
- 1999, G. T. Brooks, Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience: The Food-Environment:
- The crop protection product form which perhaps most deserves the descriptor “traditional” is the dustable powder (DP).
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- Capable of being cleaned with a duster.
- 1958, Howard Nemerov, "Seven Macabre Songs", in Mirrors and Windows
- Small animals
Began to mooch around and climb up this
Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom.
- Small animals
- 1958, Howard Nemerov, "Seven Macabre Songs", in Mirrors and Windows
Anagrams
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