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Granular.

To form into grains or small masses; as, to granulate powder, sugar, or metal.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; crystallized in grains; granular; as, granulated sugar.

The act or process of forming or crystallizing into grains; as, the granulation of powder and sugar.

A little grain a small particle; a pellet.

Full of granulations.

Having a granular structure; granular; as, granuliform limestone.

A whitish, granular rock, consisting of feldspar and quartz intimately mixed; -- sometimes called whitestone, and leptynite.

The main constituent of the starch grain or granule, in distinction from the framework of cellulose. Unlike cellulose, it is colored blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

Full of grains; abounding with granular substances; granular.

nd dissolved in the sap of the roots and rhizomes of many composite and other plants, as Inula, Helianthus, Campanula, etc., and is extracted by solution as a tasteless, white, semicrystalline substance, resembling starch, with which it is isomeric. It is intermediate in nature between starch and sugar. Called also dah…

A substance resembling inulin, found in the unripe bulbs of the dahila.

A diminutive lacinia.

Same as Lunule.

Having a form like that of the new moon; shaped like a crescent.

Resembling a small crescent. Gray.

Anything crescent-shaped; a crescent-shaped part or mark; a lunula, a lune.

A small spot, shaped like a half-moon or crescent; as, the lunulet on the wings of many insects.

Any bryozoan of the genus Lunulites, having a more or less circular form.

A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.