adjective
pulvĕrĕus
Meaning
- containing dust
pulvĕrĕus, a, um, adj. pulvis.
I. Of or containing dust, filled with or full of dust, dust-:
nubes, clouds of dust, Verg. A. 8, 593: turbo, a whirlwind of dust, Claud. B. Get. 458: farina, fine as dust, Ov. Med. Fac. 61: solum, id. M. 7, 113: aequor, a battle-field filled with dust, Stat. Th. 11, 403: crinis, id. ib. 6, 7: circus, id. ib. 6, 493: aspectus, dusty, Plin. 37, 10, 61, § 170: erat ex itinere anhelus et pulvereus, covered with dust, Pac. Pan. Theod. 34: pulverei et cinerosi mortui, App. M. 4, p. 150, 27.—Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
pulvereus adj.
pulvis, of dust, filled with dust, dusty : nubes, clouds of dust , V.: farina, i. e. fine , O.: palla (Boreae), raising clouds of dust , O.