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Small-grained   /smɔl-greɪnd/   Listen
Small-grained

adjective
1.
Consisting of fine particles.  Synonyms: fine-grained, powdered, powdery, pulverised, pulverized.  "Powdery snow" , "Pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding"





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"Small-grained" Quotes from Famous Books



... they were 2 1/2 lines long, and scarcely 1 1/2 broad, whilst those now grown have a length of three lines, and almost the same in breadth." (9/49. Heer as quoted by Carl Vogt 'Lectures on Man' English translation page 355.) These small-grained varieties of wheat and barley are believed by Heer to be the parent-forms of certain existing allied varieties, which have ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Small-grained" :   pulverized, powdery, fine, pulverised


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