friability
Americannoun
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Compare pastry that is made with lard, lard substitutes, vegetable oils and butter, as to taste, appearance, flakiness or friability, and tenderness.
From School and Home Cooking by Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
It may be distinguished from the less dangerous tumors by its softness, friability, and great vascularity, bleeding on the slightest touch, as well as by its anatomical structure.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
It may be plowed under sufficiently early to admit of this, and when so buried it aids in making a fine seed-bed, since the roots promote friability in the land.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
The "softening" here referred to is the "friability," of Sir J. Leslie, and what I have called a "loosening of the texture."
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
These in their decay further influence favorably that friability which is so desirable in soils that are cultivated, and as previously stated, the long, deep roots in their decay exercise a salutary influence on drainage.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
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