dustable

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/ˈdʌstəbəl/

adjective

Of a pesticide or herbicide: suitable for crop-dusting.

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Meanings

adjectivedustable (comparative more dustable, superlative most dustable)

comparative more dustable · superlative most dustable

  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

Origin

From dust + -able.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

dustable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustable

MLA

“dustable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustable. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dustable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dustable.

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