a. Also 7 erron. -acerous, 8 -acious. [f. late L. furfurāce-us (f. furfur bran) + -OUS.] Resembling bran; scurfy, scaly; in Bot. covered with bran-like scales.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 101. The furfuracerous excrements of the Temples.
1735. J. Moore, Columbarium, 26. The upper Chap of the Bill is half cover’d from the Head, with a naked, white, tuberous, furfuraceous Flesh.
1822–34. Good’s Study Med. (ed. 4), I. 674. The urine is peculiarly distinguished by a natural furfuraceous separation.
1860. Berkeley, Brit. Fungol., 177. Stem somewhat flexuous, brittle, furfuraceous, then smooth.
1876. Clin. Soc. Trans., IX. 45. The epidermis, on being scratched, was raised in furfuraceous scales.
