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furry
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective furry has 1 sense
- furry(s = adj.all) furred - covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs; "furred animals"; "a furry teddy bear" Derived form noun fur2
CIDE DICTIONARY
furry, a. [From Fur.].
- Covered with fur; dressed in fur. Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Resembling fur. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
furry, adj. (furrier, furriest)
1 of or like fur.
2 covered with or wearing fur.
1 of or like fur.
2 covered with or wearing fur.
Derivative
furriness n.
THESAURUS
furry
bristly, bushy, cirrose, cortical, cutaneous, dermal, dermic, downy, ecderonic, ectodermal, ectodermic, endermatic, endermic, epicarpal, epidermal, epidermic, feathery, fleecy, flocculent, flossy, fluffy, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, hypodermal, hypodermic, lanate, matted, nappy, peachy, pilose, pinnate, pubescent, shagged, shaggy, skin-deep, skinny, subcutaneous, testaceous, unshorn, velvety, woolly
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