furless
- a word derived from fur.
Example Sentences
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As the novel proceeds, Burke soon focuses her attention on Mama, the grizzled, almost furless alpha female, Goliath, the dominant male, and Tooch a bottle-fed juvenile.
From Washington Post • May 8, 2018
In the back of one crate, a dog was licking a furless newborn puppy that did not appear to be alive.
From Washington Times • Feb. 23, 2018
But while most owl pellets are densely packed with fur, Blakiston’s are more like tiny ossuaries for its furless victims: fish and frogs.
From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2016
Among the newly furless humans, bare skin would have served, like the peacock's tail, as a signal of fitness.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2013
Through the strange furless hide that smelt more of not-wolf than wolf, he could hear a comforting thump-thump, like the sound he heard when he clambered on top of his father for a nap.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
