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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: easily broken into small fragments or reduced to powder; "friable sandstone"; "friable carcinomatous tissue"; "friable curds formed in the stomach";"crumbly cookies" [syn: crumbly, friable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (crumblier; -est) Date: 1523 easily crumbled ; friable <crumbly soil> • crumbliness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (crumblier, crumbliest) consisting of, or apt to fall into, crumbs or fragments. Derivatives: crumbliness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crumbly Crum"bly (-bl?), a. EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. ``The crumbly soil.'' --Hawthorne.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(crumblier, crumbliest) Something that is crumbly is easily broken into a lot of little pieces. ...crumbly cheese. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

breakable, brittle, brittle as glass, cheap-jack, cobwebby, crackable, crimp, crisp, crispy, crump, crushable, dainty, delicate, delicately weak, effeminate, fissile, flimsy, fracturable, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, gimcrack, gimcracky, gossamery, jerry, jerry-built, lacerable, light, lightweight, namby-pamby, papery, pasteboardy, pulverizable, pulverulent, puny, rubbery, scissile, shatterable, shattery, shivery, sissified, sleazy, slight, splintery, tacky, triturable, unsubstantial, vulnerable, wispy, womanish