Friable \Fri"a*ble\, a. [L. friabilis, fr. friare to rub, break,
or crumble into small pieces, cf. fricare to rub, E. fray:
cf. F. friable.]
Easily crumbled, pulverized, or reduced to powder. "Friable
ground." --Evelyn. "Soft and friable texture." --Paley. --
Fri'a*ble*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
friable
adj 1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder;
"friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue";
"friable curds formed in the stomach"
2: (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency;
"light sandy soil" [syn: light, sandy]
WordNet (r) 2.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "friable":
breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, crackable, crimp, crisp,
crispy, crumbly, crump, crushable, delicate, fissile, flimsy,
fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, lacerable, pulverizable,
pulverulent, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, splintery,
triturable, vulnerable
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
light, sandy
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