scurfy

American  

[skur-fee] / ˈskɜr fi /

adjective

scurfier, scurfiest

1. resembling, producing, or covered with or as if with scurf.

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Etymology

Origin of scurfy

First recorded in 1475–85; scurf + -y ¹

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Example Sentences

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scurfy

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

Perianth cylindrical, not woolly, but wrinkled and roughened outside by thickly-set points which look like scurfy mealiness, the tube cohering below with the base only of the ovary, 6-cleft at the summit.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

P. 2-3 cm. expanded, obtusely umb. scurfy or granular, rusty or brownish-orange, pale and hoary when dry; s. 3-5 cm. floccosely scaly and coloured like pileus up to ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee

Lep′ra, leprosy: a scurfy, mealy substance on the surface of some plants.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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