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dustable en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdʌstəbəl/

Etymology

Etymology tree English dust Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Italic *-ðlom Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -ablebor. Middle English -able English -able English dustable From dust + -able.

Meanings

1. Of a pesticide or herbicide: suitable for crop-dusting.
   • The crop protection product form which perhaps most deserves the descriptor “traditional” is the dustable powder (DP). 1999, G. T. Brooks, Pesticide Chemistry and Bioscience: The Food-Environment:
2. Capable of being cleaned with a duster.
   • Small animals Began to mooch around and climb up this Reversionary desk and dustable heirloom. 1958, Howard Nemerov, “Seven Macabre Songs”, in Mirrors and Windows:

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