A powdery blue. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An exception is a fungal disease called powdery mildew, which thrives in dry conditions. From Wordnik.com. [5. How plants live and grow] Reference
The product controls common fungal diseases such as powdery mildew, black spot and botrytis bunch rot. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Ground very fine and used in small quantities to keeps food such as powdery seasoning mixes from caking up. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Head out of town to enjoy the powdery white beaches. From Wordnik.com. [Island Spice] Reference
Try to shovel when the snow is still light and powdery. From Wordnik.com. [Snow is coming—shovel safely] Reference
And the Little Mill ground beautiful, white, powdery salt. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
They played in the piles of sawdust, jumping off powdery wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
Try to shovel promptly, when the snow is still light and powdery. From Wordnik.com. [3 ways to prevent snow-shoveling injuries] Reference
Farinaceous: mealy: applied to powdery looking wings and surfaces. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
He dropped to the sand and dug his hands into the dry powdery soil. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of Home] Reference
Your own organic material will work if it is dry and powdery enough. From Wordnik.com. [A thick lawn can be yours with just a few steps] Reference
The result is a greenish, DNA-free liquid and a powdery mass of white bone. From Wordnik.com. [Going Green In Death] Reference
There was powdery dust over his body and soft shadows of tall waving grass. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Autumn] Reference
He picked his way cautiously, his boots churning up clouds of powdery dust. From Wordnik.com. [The Quantum Jump] Reference
Stihl also advises against using an electric blower even for dry, powdery snow. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: Use a gas leaf blower to clear light snow] Reference
A short while later, she returned with a white, powdery substance in a small paper bag. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to Malta, from the novel "Grok"] Reference
When kept in perfect condition by frequent stirring the immediate surface should be powdery. From Wordnik.com. [Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses] Reference
The dust was ankle-deep there, choking thick when stirred by feet and hoof to a powdery cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Notice the fine white powdery ash, which caused the white spot that you could see from the air. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
It lapped us, coating our faces a powdery white, faces startled in profile or looking back at me. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Light] Reference
Now, however, David sat on one bank of his Memory River, which was covered with fine, powdery snow. From Wordnik.com. [Flooding the Memory River] Reference
The next day I was cleaning the apartment and found a white powdery substance on the back of my toilet. From Wordnik.com. [Gena Grish: Was Your Dad a Baker? Because You've Got a Nice Set of Buns] Reference
As Nicholas and his family blithely enjoyed the powdery slopes, the ailing Ross was quietly maneuvering. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Shake-Up, Batman!] Reference
• Walk around your yard and look for diseased plants; white powdery mildew, orange rust or black spot. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Spiegelman: Time to Get Dirty: Autumn Chores in the Garden] Reference
Then they tumbled in, the sleighbells jingled, and off they flew through the deep, powdery, sparkling snow. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
With its unique beveled shape, hard exterior coating and powdery inside, some men say it can be difficult to cut. From Wordnik.com. [Viagra: Cutting The Costs] Reference
"I find that my work has a powdery quality to it, a light like the light today. shining through the haze and heat.". From Wordnik.com. [The Puzzle Of Genius] Reference
Resomation involves an alkaline hydrolysis process that dissolves a body into both a liquid and a powdery white mass. From Wordnik.com. [Going Green In Death] Reference
Over the last couple of weeks, at least three coatings of light, powdery snow fell on my house in the New York City suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [Tip of the Day: Use a gas leaf blower to clear light snow] Reference
It was a mossy, powdery green that reeked of a particular kind of unpleasantness that he both craved for and was repulsed by. From Wordnik.com. [Man, Ending] Reference
Glenn Stewart, 45, says his classmates were disappointed when instructors prohibited students from skiing down a powdery ridge. From Wordnik.com. [TRAVEL: SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS] Reference
"It's a powdery substance that was discovered just before noon," said Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police. From Wordnik.com. [All-clear given at Capitol Building] Reference
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