Meanings
- not comparableResembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran or dandruff.
When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.
2000, Dashka Slater, The Wishing Box, page 62 more examples
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: […] .
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.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveMade of bran.
adjectiveResembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran or dandruff.
Origin
- Latinfurfur“bran”
- Englishfurfuraceous
Borrowed from Latin furfur (“bran”) + -aceous.
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