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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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

granular adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "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] [ant: achondritic]
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