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Definition of Dustlike
1. Adjective. As fine and powdery as dust.
Definition of Dustlike
1. Adjective. Resembling dust. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dustlike
1. resembling dust [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustlike
Literary usage of Dustlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of General Science by Otis William Caldwell, William Lewis Eikenberry (1918)
"In a few days the mold produces small black heads which yield a fine, dustlike
black powder. These dustlike particles are called spores. ..."
2. Report of the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry for the Year by United States Bureau of Animal Industry (1913)
"A similar thin dustlike layer, beneath which the fluid remains perfectly clear,
... This dustlike layer, when smear preparations of it are made and examined ..."
3. The Gabbros and Associated Rocks at Preston, Connecticut by Gerald Francis Loughlin (1912)
"The minute dustlike inclusions are very prominent in this, as in the feldspar of
many other gabbros, and are evidently the cause of FIGURE 15. ..."
4. Bulletin by Virginia Geological Survey, Virginia Division of Geology (1913)
"The exact nature of the inclusions was indeterminate; they include dustlike
particles and larger colorless and transparent crystallites of prismatic and ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... with dustlike seed. One of the most remarkable epidemics connected with these
fungi is the potato ..."
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