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He took off his helmet and raked at a scurfy bald skull with filthy nails.

The centre of mature fruiting bodies is noticeably scurfy, or scaly.

He was a loose, asthmatic, scurfy man with the habitual expression of someone having his leg removed without anesthetic.

They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence.

Its surface is sticky and glutinous when fresh, somewhat scurfy near the apex (covered with loose scales) but smooth below.

Mr. Kuvetli leered: a scurfy faun in a flannel nightshirt.

He was short, broad-shouldered and unkempt, with a heavy jowl and a fringe of scurfy grey hair round a bald pate.

The upperside of the leave is obtused and scabrous, the underside is thinly scurfy.

The pathology observed in scurfy mice seems to result from an inability to properly regulate CD4 T-cell activity.

The old-fashioned word suited the room and Mrs Williams's grey, Crimplene-clad, scurfy respectability.

It is highly branched and bears scaly or scurfy gray-green leaves up to 5 centimeters long and often toothed or rippled along the edges.

Taiwan fir is a small to medium-sized tree sometimes reaching a height of 35 m and trunk diameter of 1 m. Initially, the bark is scurfy or scaly, lenticellate, later detaching in elongated plates.