Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
granular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.
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- adjective
granular
Etymologies
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Examples
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The ingredients for a good polenta are one pound of corn meal, preferably granulous, one quart and a half of water, salted in proportion, one piece of butter, one cup and a half of milk.
The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well Maria Gentile
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Cut in thin slices one or two veal kidneys, removing the granulous part that is to be found in the middle, and put the slices in a saucepan with
The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well Maria Gentile
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It is called granite from its granulous structure.
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Tamara with difficulty sought out a bald, ancient old man, grown over as though with bog moss by entangled gray bristles; with little rheumy eyes and an enormous, reddish, dark-blue granulous nose, on the manner of a cookie.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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The grunstein, which farther north was less granulous, and passed into serpentine, here assumes a very different character.
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By agitation it becomes granulous like soft cheese.
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Also portions of the masses composed of needles and fibres, or granulous or compact, having care to choose them fresh and free from those alterations that take place in these at the surface.
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By agitation it becomes granulous like soft cheese.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The grunstein, which farther north was less granulous, and passed into serpentine, here assumes a very different character.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Of these roots of Cazave, in those Countries, is made a sort of granulous flower or meal, extreamly dry, and white, which supplieth the want of common bread, made of wheat; whereof the fields are altogether barren in that Island.
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