furred

adjective \ ˈfərd \

|Updated on: 10 Jul 2018

Examples: furred in a Sentence

Definition of furred

1 : lined, trimmed, or faced with fur

2 : coated as if with fur; specifically : having a coating consisting chiefly of mucus and dead epithelial cells

a furred tongue

3 : bearing or wearing fur

4 : provided with furring

furred wall

Examples of furred in a Sentence

a girl who loves all furred animals, from hamsters to bears

Recent Examples of furred from the Web

Hoult plays the blue-furred Beast in the X-Men movies and counts Mad Max: Fury Road and Rebel in the Rye amongst his credits.

— borys kit, The Hollywood Reporter, "Nicholas Hoult, Glen Powell and Miles Teller Frontrunners for Big 'Top Gun 2' Role (Exclusive)," 27 June 2018
The day featured visits with the farm's feathered and furred residents, food, vendors, early-season plants, a tag sale, a sound-healing workshop, a drum circle, and more.

— melanie savage, Courant Community, "Cold Spring Farm Hosts Earth Day Happenings," 2 May 2018
So, if a white-furred snowshoe hare mates with another snowshoe hare that maintains its darker coat throughout the winter, their offspring won’t stick out like a sore thumb.

— dino grandoni, Washington Post, "The Energy 202: Why Ted Cruz rallied with Philadelphia union workers this week," 23 Feb. 2018
Filled with desolate vistas, a feathered and furred menagerie, and multiple aperture-like windows, these fragments quickly establish a moody tone and over time become dolorous refrains.

— manohla dargis, New York Times, "Review: The Persistence of Abbas Kiarostami’s Vision in ‘24 Frames’," 1 Feb. 2018
Typhlomys, also known as the soft-furred tree mouse or Chinese pygmy dormouse, is around three inches long and sports a white-tufted tail longer than its body.

— jason bittel, Smithsonian, "This Echolocating Dormouse Could Reveal the Origins of One of Nature’s Coolest Superpowers," 23 Mar. 2017
Fox: Fox is notoriously full-furred with long, plush fur filling out a coat.

— liana satenstein, Marie Claire, "Fur Lovers Who Don't Want to Buy New, Rejoice!," 13 Feb. 2014
The Shasta Pack, which had been in southeastern Siskiyou County, California, until about a year ago, consists of a dark-furred breeding pair and their five pups born in spring 2015.

— times-standard, The Mercury News, "California wolf from ‘missing’ Shasta Pack seen in Nevada," 5 Apr. 2017
Trappers in North Dakota for years have pressed state wildlife officials to allow otter trapping as the animals have moved into the eastern part of the state from Minnesota, where the member of the furred weasel family is more established.

— Washington Post, "North Dakota may join states that allow otter trapping," 30 Apr. 2017

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