In many varieties the fruit develops a whitish powdery coating, or bloom.
The spleen-deficiency and qi-stagnation syndrome is defined as having the main symptoms and at least two of the accompanying symptoms, as well as pale tongue with whitish tongue coating and deep and thready pulse.
The caps of young specimens have a velvety texture and are covered with a whitish to gray powdery coating; this texture and coating is gradually lost as the mushroom matures, and the cap often develops cracks.
It has a glossy black (sometimes brownish) coat, with a whitish mark shaped like a crescent moon on the chest.
The cap surface has a whitish sheen because of its pruinose coating.
The trait, the coating of leaf and stem surfaces with a waxy whitish substance, is called glaucousness.
The coat of the seal is blotched gray-brown but fades and becomes whitish by the time the crabeater molts in late summer.
The cicadas' bodies were greasy to the touch, he recalled, and their abdomens were often coated with a whitish-green powder.
