Search Result for "granular":
Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency;
- Example: "granular sugar"
- Example: "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"
- Example: "it left a mealy residue"
[syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]
2. having a granular structure like that of chondrites;
[syn: chondritic, granular]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
granular \gran"u*lar\ (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[~e]r), a. [Cf. F. granulaire. See Granule.] Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. [1913 Webster] granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "granular": arenaceous, arenarious, atomic, breccial, brecciated, coarse, coarse-grained, comminuted, corpuscular, cross-grained, embryonic, evanescent, germinal, grained, grainy, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, gross, impalpable, imperceptible, imponderable, inappreciable, indiscernible, infinitesimal, intangible, invisible, microcosmic, microscopic, molecular, pebbled, pebbly, rough, sabulous, sandy, shingled, shingly, subatomic, tenuous, thin, ultramicroscopic, unrefined, unseeable
