a. [f. L. furfur bran + -OUS.] Resembling bran; containing bran or bran-like particles; made of bran.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, lxxiii. 23. A furfurouse water or urine that is lyke as branne were in it.
1744. Mitchell, in Phil. Trans., XLIII. 144. Furfurous Desquammations.
1822. Syd. Smith, Wks. (1867), I. 359. Furfurous bread and the water of the pool constitute his food.