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scurf

 (skûrf)
n.
1. Scaly dry skin that has been exfoliated, such as dandruff.
2. A loose scaly crust coating a surface, especially of a plant.
3. Any of several fungal diseases of plants characterized by scaly lesions especially on underground parts, such as the tubers of potatoes.

[Middle English, probably of Scandinavian origin; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

scurf′i·ness n.
scurf′y adj.
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scurf•y

(ˈskɜr fi)

adj. scurf•i•er, scurf•i•est.
resembling, producing, or covered with or as if with scurf.
[1475–85]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.scurfy - having or producing or covered with scurf
2.scurfy - rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
biological science, biology - the science that studies living organisms
rough, unsmooth - having or caused by an irregular surface; "trees with rough bark"; "rough ground"; "rough skin"; "rough blankets"; "his unsmooth face"
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Translations
قِشْري
lupovitýšupinatý
korpás
meî flösu
plný lupín
kepekli

scurfy

[ˈskɜːfɪ] ADJcasposo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

scurf

(skəːf) noun
dandruff. Some shampoos help to get rid of scurf.
ˈscurfy adjective
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References in periodicals archive ?
Scurfy (Sf) mice with Treg abnormalities harbor a missense mutation in FOXP3 [6] and develop anti-dsDNA, anti-Smith, and antinuclear antibodies similar to those of SLE patients.
Ripe fruits were considered to be those with scurfy brown, woody, fragile shell with brown pulp and blackish-brown, and hard shiny seeds [3].
Dairy goats with matted, rough and scurfy hair had lower ECC, deficiency or excess of minerals and increased presence of abnormal sounds in lungs compared to goats with shiny and homogeneous coat (BATTINI et al, 2015).
They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence.
(2.) Wildin RS, Ramsdell SF, Peake J, Faravelli F, Casanova JL X-linked neonatal diabetes mellitus, enteropathy and endocrinopathy syndrome is the human equivalent of mouse scurfy. Nat Genet 2001;27:18-20.
22: White-marked tussock moths attack the elms; May beetles find the oaks; scurfy scale comes to the lindens.
She found books with pictures of the fire blight and scurfy that might attack the mountain ash, learned to recognize the woolly aphid, the round-headed borer, the blister mite.
Sunburn, windburn, frostbite - yes, and scurfy, too!
2 mm thick near the base, strongly coriaceous, distinctly channeled, green but the color completely obscured by a coarse and dense layer of cinereous-white trichomes abaxially and adaxially, trichomes with margins suberect, irregularly and shortly lacerate, giving a scurfy appearance to the blades, inconspicuously nerved abaxially, margins straight to slightly recurved, densely to subdensely spinose, spines narrowly triangular, flattened, straight to antrorse-uncinate, densely white-lepidote except for the castaneous glabrous apex, 2-4 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide at base, 2-10 mm apart.