In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
GRAINY
farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy
(adjective) composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; “granular sugar”; “the photographs were grainy and indistinct”; “it left a mealy residue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
grainy (comparative grainier, superlative grainiest)
Resembling grains; granular.
Coarsely ground or gritty.
Anagrams
• raying
Source: Wiktionary
Grain"y, a.
Definition: Resembling grains; granular.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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INTUITIVELY
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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