friable
C2CEFR level
90/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
General adjective
Easily crumbled or broken into small fragments.
The topsoil was dark and friable, breaking apart at the lightest touch.
Medicine adjective
Easily crumbled or made to bleed on contact, a description of inflamed or malignant mucosa.
The rectal mucosa was friable and bled readily when touched by the endoscope.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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