Crossword clues for granular
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
granular \gran"u*lar\ (gr[a^]n"[-u]*l[~e]r), a. [Cf. F. granulaire. See Granule.] Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.
granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from Late Latin granulum "granule," diminutive of Latin granum "grain, seed" (see corn (n.1)) + -ar. Replaced granulous (late 14c.). Related: Granularity.
Wiktionary
a. Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains; as, a granular substance. Grainy. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.
WordNet
adj. composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granulose, gritty, mealy, sandy]
having a granular structure like that of chondrites [syn: chondritic] [ant: achondritic]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "granular".
They consist of an outer layer of small polygonal cells, containing purple granular matter or fluid, and with the walls thicker than those of the pedicels.
The purple fluid or granular matter which fills the cells of the glands differs to a certain extent from that within the cells of the pedicels.
Some of the points on the infolded margins likewise contained brownish granular matter.
The widespread granular lesions of the skin, the suppurative lymph nodes, the all-too-obviously painful perianal abscesses made diagnosis almost unavoidable.
A barmaid in satin top and shorts, her visible skin showing a stitchwork of granular tumors, came over to the booth.
These terminal cells or glands contain granules and often globules of granular matter.
The photosphere was the outermost layer of the sun except for the chromosphere, and was dominated by granular cells.
Alpha Cygni had swollen into an immense plain mottled with granular shadows.
Scores of airtight aluminum paint cans used in the collection of fire debris and flammable residues were in pyramids on shelves, and there were big jars of granular blue Drierite, and petri dishes, beakers, charcoal tubes, and the usual brown paper bags of evidence.
The pats could show such fine detail because the aniline dye used as an emulsion would resolve images at the molecular level, whereas the silver compounds ordinarily used in photography resolve only down to the granular level.
The mesh of the rovers' big wheels caught like a snowmobile's driving chain, running well over all the various surfaces of the cap, over patches of exposed granular dust, low hills of hard ice, fields of blinding white CO2 frost, and the usual lace of sublimed water ice.
Imbibition is the tendency of granular rock to imbibe a fluid under the force of capillary attraction, in the absence of any pressure.
She peered in at the field, whose left side was chock-full of tiny, granular circles each containing a fluorescing clump of DNA, but for the moment her mind wasn't on the task at hand.
Her face ground through the fresh snowfall to the dirty, granular layer beneath.
Protect your Clan from Ice Mountain, and the Spirit of Granular Snow who begot him, and the Spirit of Blizzards, her mate.