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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chalky \Chalk"y\, a.
     Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a
     chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  chalky
       adj 1: composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or
              calcite or chalk [syn: {calcareous}]
       2: having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "chalky":
     argent, argentine, branny, canescent, chalklike, comminute,
     comminuted, cretaceous, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated,
     dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, fleecy-white,
     floury, frosted, frosty, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated,
     grizzled, grizzly, ground, hoar, hoary, impalpable, lactescent,
     levigated, lily-white, marble, marmoreal, mealy, milky, milled,
     niveous, pestled, platinum, powdered, powdery, pulverant,
     pulverized, pulverulent, pure white, reduced to powder, scaly,
     scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, silver, silvered,
     silvery, snow-white, snowy, swan-white, triturated, white,
     white as snow
  
  

















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