pulverizer (pulverizer)

1. One who or that which pulverizes; especially, a machine for breaking the soil, crushing stone, grinding grain, etc.-2. In ornith., a bird that habitually rolls or wallows in the dust or takes sand-baths; one of the Pulver a to res. The singularity of manners. cies, by some called pulverizers . peculiar to a few spe J. Rennie, in Montagu's Ornith. Dict. IMG:content-1296.png:[blocks in formation] pulverous (pul've-rus), a. [L. pulvis ( pulver- ), dust, powder: see powder.] Consisting of dust or powder; like powder. Smart.