furfur
Americannoun
-
furfures
plural
-
the formation of flakelike particles on the surface of the skin, as of dandruff.
-
furfures, these particles.
noun
-
a scaling of the skin; dandruff
-
any scale of the epidermis
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of furfur
1615–25; < Latin: bran, scaly infection
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The culprit, it said, is a couple of yeastlike funguses, M. restricta and M. globosa, and not the fungus that has long been a primary suspect, M. furfur.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is believed that such cases are variously due to the trichophyton of ringworm, to the microsporon furfur of tinea versicolor, to the microsporon minutissimus of erythrasma, and to other parasites.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
The meal don't is valuable better than the furfur.'''
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
