friable

形容词 adj.
发音 frī'ə-bəl

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Easily broken into small fragments, crumbled, or reduced to powder.
    — Spiders had woven their vague trapezes between the friable heads of dead peonies in enormous glass jars streaked with tide marks where the water had evaporated long ago.
  2. Of soil, loose and large-grained in consistency.
    — Sand has been incorporated to make the soil more friable.
  3. Of a poison, likely to crumble and become airborne, thus becoming a health risk.
    — It is when asbestos-containing products are friable that hazardous asbestos fibers are likely to be released and sent airborne.
  4. Of a number: smooth, that factors completely into small prime numbers.

词形变化

more friable comparative most friable superlative

词源

Borrowed from French friable, from Latin friābilis (“friable”), from friō (“to crumble”).
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