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What does friable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word friable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
  2. (of soil) Loose and large-grained in consistency.
  3. (poison) Likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk
  4. (mathematics) smooth: that factors completely into small prime numbers.
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Molasse is a dialect word used by French-speaking farmers in western Switzerland to describe soft, friable sandstones.
The tissue was curetted off the bone and consisted of multiple tan-brown fragments with red friable areas.
This material, which is colored whitish or grey to yellow-orange, is so light and friable that specimens crumble under finger pressure.
In portal hypertensive gastropathy, the mucosa is friable and bleeding occurs when the ectatic vessels rupture and manifest as mucosal oozing.
Ants love sandy soil so if you add plenty of humus, such as compost, you'll end up with dark, moist, friable soil and no ants.
The best form of winter protection is to mound up each plant at its base with loose, friable soil that drains well.

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