Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Dusty \Dust"y\, a. [Compar. {Dustier}; superl. {Dustiest}.] [AS.
dystig. See {Dust}.]
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with
dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to
dusty death. --Shak.
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
{Dusty miller} (Bot.), a plant ({Cineraria maritima}); -- so
called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
Source : WordNet®
Cineraria maritima
n : stiff much-branched perennial of the Mediterranean region
having very white woolly stems and leaves; sometimes
placed in genus Cineraria [syn: {dusty miller}, {Senecio
cineraria}]