 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
friable
adjective
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}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Friable \Fri"a*ble\, adjective [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}, noun
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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