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FUR
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Irregular inflected forms: furred , furring
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dense coat of fine silky hairs on mammals (e.g., cat or seal or weasel)
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fur" is a kind of...):
coat; pelage (growth of hair or wool or fur covering the body of an animal)
Meronyms (parts of "fur"):
guard hair (coarse hairs that form the outer fur and protect the underfur of certain mammals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fur"):
undercoat; underfur (thick soft fur lying beneath the longer and coarser guard hair)
Derivation:
furry (covered with a dense coat of fine silky hairs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A garment made of animal pelts or synthetic fur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fur" is a kind of...):
garment (an article of clothing)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The dressed hairy coat of a mammal
Synonyms:
fur; pelt
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fur" is a kind of...):
animal skin (the outer covering of an animal)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fur"):
squirrel (the fur of a squirrel)
seal; sealskin (the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal)
sable (the expensive dark brown fur of the marten)
raccoon (the fur of the North American racoon)
otter (the fur of an otter)
muskrat; muskrat fur (the brown fur of a muskrat)
mink (the expensive fur of a mink)
leopard (the pelt of a leopard)
lapin; rabbit (the fur of a rabbit)
lambskin (the skin of a lamb with the wool still on)
fox (the grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox)
ermine (the expensive white fur of the ermine)
chinchilla (the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla)
beaver; beaver fur (the soft brown fur of the beaver)
bearskin (the pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug))
astrakhan (the fur of young lambs)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb fur
Context examples:
It had taken Cherokee a long time to shift that grip upward, and this had also tended further to clog his jaws with fur and skin-fold.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Where did you leave your furred cloak?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The covering of hair, wool, or fur on the body of an animal.
(Coat, NCI Thesaurus)
Mammalia, Reptilia, Gastropoda, Insecta, etc that contains a large number of different sublineages, but have shared characteristics in common (e.g. warm-blooded, fur, six legs etc).
(Class, NCI Thesaurus)
Causes of cheetah decline have been mostly habitat loss, killings of cheetahs by humans, human hunting of cheetah's resources such as antelope, illegal fur trade, illegal cub trafficking, and roadkill.
(Around 7,100 cheetahs remain, say experts, Wikinews)
The sevengill and great white are both ordinarily apex predators and seek some of the same food, such as cape fur seals, but great whites can also prey directly on sevengills.
(Study indicates as great white shark disappears, living fossil moves in, Wikinews)
These animals are highly prized for their fur and are used in biomedical research for auditory system research as well as bacterial infections caused by Listeria, Yersinia and Pseudomonas.
(Chinchilla, NCI Thesaurus)
When Edith put his fur cap on his head and proceeded to pull the flaps down over his ears, he laughed and said: What are you doin' that for?
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Lice attach tightly to hair, fur, and feathers of the host organism and feed on blood, skin, and sebaceous secretions.
(Lice, NCI Thesaurus)
Your toils only begin; wrap yourself in furs and provide food, for we shall soon enter upon a journey where your sufferings will satisfy my everlasting hatred.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
