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Etymology

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From dust +‎ -able.

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Adjective

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dustable (comparative more dustable, superlative most dustable)

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

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