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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Botany Having a white, powdery covering or bloom.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Covered with a bloom or powder so as to appear as if frosted: said of some plant-surfaces dusted with a fine granular secretion.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany Having a very fine whitish powder on a surface.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

Etymologies

  1. Latin pruīnōsus, from pruīna (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin pruīnōsus, frosty, from pruīna, hoarfrost; see preus- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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