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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 dust·y a. [Compar. Dustier superl. Dustiest ]
 1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table;  a dusty attic; 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]