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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Made of or covered with scaly particles, such as dandruff.
  2. adj. Relating to or resembling bran.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Made of or resembling bran.
  2. Scaly; scurfy. Specifically applied in pathology to forms of desquamation in which the epidermis comes off in scales, and to a bran-like sediment which is sometimes observed in urine.
  3. In botany, coated with bran-like particles; scurfy. Also applied to the thallus of a lichen when gonidia are developed in such a way as to produce granules or wartlets on the surface.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Made of bran.
  2. adj. Resembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran; resembling dandruff.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Made of bran; like bran; scurfy.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin furfur ("bran") + English -aceous. (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin furfurāceus, branlike, scaly : Latin furfur, bran + Latin -āceus, -aceous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • yarb 'His soul scaly ... furfuraceous scalp ...'

    - Gass, Omensetter's Luck Mar 24, 2013

  • bilby Terrifying. Jul 4, 2009

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