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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



... the woods, especially on the northern margins. The lake is not yet what we may call thawed out, although there is a large space of blue water, and the ice is separated from the shore everywhere, and is soft, water-soaked, and crumbly. On favorable slopes and exposures, the earth begins to look green; and almost anywhere, if one looks closely, one sees the greenness of the grass, or of little herbage, amidst the brown. Under the ...
— Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 2. • Nathaniel Hawthorne



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



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