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Crumbly

adjective
1.
Easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder.  Synonym: friable.  "Friable carcinomatous tissue" , "Friable curds formed in the stomach" , "Crumbly cookies"






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"Crumbly" Quotes from Famous Books



... heart she had not spared the dripping. The tea was brewed, hot and strong, the teapot, singed by long use, standing on the hob. There was a crusty loaf, a pat of butter indented in the middle with one of Dick's regimental buttons, and a plate of cakes, hard as the nether—millstone and very crumbly, having been purchased from the distant town at the beginning of the week in expectation of this ...
— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... Thuringerwald. Clay galls are common in the sandstones of some districts, and in the neighbourhood of the Harz an oolitic calcareous sandstone, Rogenstein, occurs. In eastern Hesse, the lowest beds are crumbly, shaly ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various



Words linked to "Crumbly" :   breakable, friable, crumbliness, crumb



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