(a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
(a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
(a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not only separation of native, two-stranded DNA from denatured molecules but more distinct fractionation of single-stranded DNA was demonstrated on unmodified powdery and microgranular cellulose.
(2) However, it inhibited some Mycobacterium and Rhodotorula, and it showed excellent control of powdery mildew of barley plants in greenhouse tests at concentrations between 31.2 and 62.5 ppm.
(3) We report here the complete amino acid sequence of a pathogen-induced putative peroxidase from wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) as deduced from cDNA clones representing mRNA from leaves infected with the powdery mildew fungus Erysiphe graminis.
(4) The kit INPOLIN is intended for the local therapy of a tuberculosis cavern by spraying its walls with the powdery medicinal preparation.
(5) A full length cDNA of a barley leaf messenger, found to increase in amount during infection attempts by the powdery mildew fungus (Erysiphe graminis), is characterized.
(6) Wheat (Triticum aestivum) exhibits local acquired resistance to the powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe graminis f. sp.
(7) But back then, if you had a headache, you'd wait until you got home, open the dusty bottle, and swallow a white, powdery pill, which tasted disgusting.
(8) The development of inflammatory reaction in 106 patients with severe and extremely severe burns in combined use in the complex treatment of extracorporeal hemosorption, enterosorption, applicative sorption by the powdery PMS-Zn sorbent, passive immunotherapy was studied.
(9) A taxonomic study of strain B-98891, which produced an antibiotic effective against powdery mildew of barley, identified it as Streptoverticillium rimofaciens.
(10) The chromatin pattern was fine and "powdery" with multiple small micronucleoli.
(11) The blue flag beach is backed by powdery dunes and looks out towards Caldey island.
(12) Round, saucer-type sleds work best on the powdery sand.
(13) In use of a powdery composition containing the dry pharmaceutical collagen (20 component parts), ampicillin (20), methyluracil (1), dioxidine (1) for the treatment of suppurative wounds after different operative interventions on the abdominal organs, the wound cleaning of purulent-necrotic masses occurred in average 9 days, the onset of granulation formation--7.7, epithelization--8.4 days earlier than in patients treated by the conventional preparations.
(14) A search for practically valuable mutant genes conferring resistance to barley powdery mildew applied a screening system where four commercial varieties of barley without known genes for resistance were tested to the successful mildew race D1.
(15) Of forest and sea and mountains, and powdery white beaches.
(16) Rub this in using your fingertips so that the crumble mix is not powdery but has a few lumps and bumps in it.
(17) The reasons for this approach which we termed enterosorption, were good adsorptive properties, smooth surface, strength and uniformal nature of synthetic carbon adsorbents, causing practically no symptoms of enteropathy which are typical for high doses of powdery carbons.
(18) Sodium salts of the inositol phosphates were more powdery and less hygroscopic than the potassium salts.
(19) Genetical analyses of these dominant resistant lines included crosses to susceptible material, crosses to the ml-o variety 'Refoma', crosses among the lines, crosses to sources of known dominant resistance genes, and tests to a panel of 30 different races of barley powdery mildew.
(20) A new antibiotic mildiomycin, strongly active against powdery mildew, was isolated from the culture filtrate of Streptoverticillium rimofaciens B-98891.
Pulverised
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Put the walnuts, garlic, coriander, and onion in a food processor and grind until fine – do not pulverise into a fine powder as the stuffing should retain a nice crunch.
(2) It ripped up the traditional fashion calendar (the period from conceptualising a piece to delivery into store) and pulverised lead times.
(3) The animals were placed in a cell in which an allergen-water-dialyzed extract of ambrosia pollen was dispersed by means of coaxial pulveriser.
(4) These include concrete blocks incorporating pulverised fuel ash from coal-fired power stations as well as more traditional materials such as clay bricks and concrete blocks.
(5) Even if the Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea or indeed upon the Caspian, even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverised at home.
(6) They pulverised several hundred kilometres of coastline and left up to 400,000 people homeless.
(7) By commitments, he meant the package of pulverising privatisations, tax rises and cuts in jobs, pay and services demanded by the EU and IMF in exchange for loans which cannot be repaid and are reducing the country to beggary.
(8) Your tongue is pulverised, all the muscles are dry, you can't swallow, you can't manoeuvre things in your mouth, and you're rushing to bins to spit it out."
(9) These ghosts, totally free of haemoglobin, were first of all pulverised in liquid nitrogen then treated ultrasonically.
(10) Like viruses and others chemicals, Bleomycin was responsible for "pulverisation" of chromosomes in several cells.
(11) Frazier is the likely opponent, though Ali acknowledges the contradiction that he will always have trouble with a man who was pulverised by Foreman.
(12) Witnesses said there were "no seats, no luggage, no trace of human beings" and the plane looked as if it had been pulverised.
(13) CAF at lower concentrations enhanced the production of chromatid breaks and exchange figures while higher concentrations (10(-3) M) caused multiple breaks and pulverised mitoses.
(14) We've arranged to meet in the poolside bar of the Trump SoHo, where women in very short dresses and very high heels are shouting in each other's ears and failing to hear anything over brain-pulverisingly loud Ibiza beats.
(15) It was a multimedia extravaganza with a booklet of artwork by Theodora Allen given away as an invitation, and a commissioned soundtrack by psychedelic punks Thee Oh Sees played at pulverising volume.
(16) But Shiner’s admission last December that he paid an Iraqi middleman to find clients, his admission of other misconduct , his failure to defend himself in the hearings and the tribunal’s final decision will pulverise his reputation.
(17) In bitterly cold drizzling rain, the tusks were fed one by one on to a conveyer belt and into a pulveriser that spewed out a fine, dirty-white dust.
(18) Incubation of human serum with crystalline cholesterol which had been pulverised by sonication resulted in a measurable uptake of cholesterol by the serum.
(19) Satirical scope GTA 5: sharp-suited Michael Indeed, Rockstar North has built an extraordinary universe that functions not only as an exciting, diverse setting but also as a pulverising, nihilistic satire on western society.
(20) We girls would have our Christmas meal and Mum would go back to Dad's room to feed him his pulverised version.