granular

What it means

1. Consisting of, or resembling, granules or grains.

   a granular substance

2. Grainy.

   It has a granular structure

   1 more example

   This Whyn Dyke is bare at the cliffs ſeveral yards in height, and is near nine feet in width. It conſiſts of an inner part of a granular and ſomewhat porous texture...

   1790, Abraham Mills, Some Strata in Ireland and Scotland, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 80

3. transferred senseRefined or precise.

   This should allow for a more granular degree of control

In a sentence

a granular substance

Where it comes from

1. Latingrānum“grain, seed”
2. Late Latingrānulum“granule, little grain”
3. Englishgranular

From Late Latin grānulum (“granule, little grain”), diminutive of Latin grānum (“grain, seed”), + -ar. By surface analysis, granule + -ar. Compare French granulaire.