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furfuraceous

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin furfur (bran) +‎ -aceous.

Adjective

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furfuraceous (not comparable)

  1. Made of bran.
  2. Resembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran or dandruff.
    • 1828, William Jackson Hooker, Pitcairnia Bracteata: Bracteated Pitcairnia, Samuel Curtis (editor), Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Or, Flower Garden Displayed, Volume 55 [Volume 2 of the New Series], page 207,
      Leaves a foot or more long on the lower part of the cylindrical and furfuraceous stem, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, obscurely striated, very acuminated, the margin entire, except at the sheathing base, where there are some strong brown teeth pointing upwards: [] .
    • 1834, Baron Alibert, “On the Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Plumbe, transl., edited by Michael Ryan, London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 4, page 207:
      This form does not produce crusts, but furfuraceous scales, white, more or less thick, sometimes damp, and adhering to the hair by the help of a viscous and fœtid discharge, and sometimes dry and friable, detaching itself from the head with the greatest facility.
    • 2000, Dashka Slater, The Wishing Box[1], page 6:
      When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.

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