furfuraceous

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin furfur (“bran”) +‎ -aceous.

Adjective

furfuraceous (not comparable)

1. Made of bran.
2. Resembling bran; having or characterised by small flakes that resemble bran or dandruff.
   • 1828, William Jackson Hooker, Pitcairnia Bracteata: Bracteated Pitcairnia, Samuel Curtis (editor), Curtis's Botanical Magazine: Or, Flower Garden Displayed, Volume 55 [Volume 2 of the New Series], page 207,

     Leaves a foot or more long on the lower part of the cylindrical and furfuraceous stem, linear-lanceolate, coriaceous, obscurely striated, very acuminated, the margin entire, except at the sheathing base, where there are some strong brown teeth pointing upwards: […] .

   • 1834, Baron Alibert, “On the Diseases of the Skin”, in Samuel Plumbe, transl., edited by Michael Ryan, London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 4, page 207:

     This form does not produce crusts, but furfuraceous scales, white, more or less thick, sometimes damp, and adhering to the hair by the help of a viscous and fœtid discharge, and sometimes dry and friable, detaching itself from the head with the greatest facility.

   • 2000, Dashka Slater, The Wishing Box‎, page 6:

     When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.

Synonyms

• (made of bran): branny
• (resembling bran): branlike, branny
• (characterised by flakes): scurfy

Derived terms

• furfuraceous cretinism (medicine, obsolete)
• furfuraceous desquamation (medicine)

See also

• scurf