scurfy

[ skur-fee ]

adjective

, scurf·i·er, scurf·i·est.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of scurfy¹

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

Example Sentences

Perianth persistent, woolly or scurfy outside.

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Mostly epiphytes, with dry persistent scurfy leaves.

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Shrubs, with scurfy leaves; flowers mostly diœcious.

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Fruit a small berry-like drupe, with 4 nutlets.—Shrubs, with scurfy pubescence, and small flowers in axillary cymes.

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Seeds carunculate.—Stellate-downy, or scurfy, or hairy and glandular plants, mostly strong-scented; the fertile flowers usually at the base of the sterile spike or cluster.

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