sawdust

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: saw=dust

CIDE DICTIONARY

sawdust, n. 

 Dust or small fragments of wood (or of stone, etc.) made by the cutting of a saw.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sawdust, n. powdery particles of wood produced in sawing.

THESAURUS

sawdust

afterglow, afterimage, air pollution, attritus, balance, bran, butt, butt end, candle ends, chaff, cosmic dust, crumb, crumble, debris, detritus, dust, dust ball, efflorescence, end, fag end, fallout, farina, filings, flour, fossil, grits, groats, holdover, husks, kittens, leavings, leftovers, lint, meal, odds and ends, offscourings, orts, parings, powder, pussies, rags, raspings, refuse, relics, remainder, remains, remnant, residue, residuum, rest, roach, rubbish, ruins, rump, scourings, scraps, shadow, shavings, smut, soot, straw, stubble, stump, survival, sweepings, trace, vestige, waste

ROGET THESAURUS

sawdust

Pulverulence

N powderiness, pulverulence, sandiness, efflorescence, friability, powder, dust, sand, shingle, sawdust, grit, meal, bran, flour, farina, rice, paddy, spore, sporule, crumb, seed, grain, particle, limature, filings, debris, detritus, tailings, talus slope, scobs, magistery, fine powder, flocculi, smoke, cloud of dust, cloud of sand, cloud of smoke, puff of smoke, volume of smoke, sand storm, dust storm, pulverization, comminution, attenuation, granulation, disintegration, subaction, contusion, trituration, levigation, abrasion, detrition, multure, limitation, tripsis, filing, mill, arrastra, gristmill, grater, rasp, file, mortar and pestle, nutmeg grater, teeth, grinder, grindstone, kern, quern, koniology, powdery, pulverulent, granular, mealy, floury, farinaceous, branny, furfuraceous, flocculent, dusty, sandy, sabulous, psammous, arenose, arenarious, arenaceous, gritty, efflorescent, impalpable, lentiginous, lepidote, sabuline, sporaceous, sporous, pulverizable, friable, crumbly, shivery, pulverized, attrite, in pieces.