scurfy

How to use scurfy in a sentence

• "Perhaps Fane will recite to us his discovery," said Mr. Cray, scratching his scurfy head with the gnawed end of a penholder.

  Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie

• Stem: Stout; yellowish; minutely roughened with scurfy dots, or faintly striped with brown.

  Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them | William Hamilton Gibson

• The winter buds are compressed, scurfy, and of a bright yellow color.

  Forest Trees of Illinois | Fuller George D.

• Flesh very thin, pileus soon splitting along the lines of the gills, scurfy or glabrous.

  European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae | George Massee

• Nearly half of them were afflicted with the scurfy skin-disease.

  The Malay Archipelago | Alfred Russell Wallace