scurfy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of scurfy
Example Sentences
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The duo mapped a piece of chromosome from a scurfy mouse, a huge undertaking at the time, and planned to look at 20 genes in that area.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025
The lurching subway car on New York's ancient IRT line was a meticu lous replica of the real thing, complete with dirty windows and a scurfy litter of candy wrappers on the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
P. thin, flexible, reniform, cinnamon then pale, broken up into scurfy squamules; g. determinate, thin, reticulately joined, cinnamon; s. lateral, very short, dilated into the p.; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. concave then exp. and depr. 4-7 mm. whitish then tinged rufous or ochre; g. adnexed, whitish then pinkish, finally brownish, rounded in front; s. slender, incurved, base scurfy or downy; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Below the ring the veil is concrete with the stem, forming scurfy scales upon it.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
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