Usually means: Covered with a frosty bloom.
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  1. pruinous: Merriam-Webster
  2. pruinous: Wordnik
  3. pruinous: Wiktionary
  4. Pruinous: Dictionary.com
  5. Pruinous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. pruinous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Pruinous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. pruinous: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Pruinous: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of pruinose [(botany) Having a very fine whitish powder (bloom) on a surface.]

Similar:
pruinose, pruinate, pruinosed, pulveraceous, subpruinose, prunaceous, pollinose, albiflorous, glaucous, asperifoliate, more...

Opposite:
glabrous, smooth, bald

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Similar:
pruinose, pruinate, pruinosed, pulveraceous, subpruinose, prunaceous, pollinose, albiflorous, glaucous, asperifoliate, more...

Opposite:
glabrous, smooth, bald



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