Covered with fur or having a furry coating; also can mean coated with something resembling fur.
From Middle English 'furren,' derived from Old French 'foure' meaning 'fur.' The '-ed' suffix creates an adjective form meaning 'having' or 'covered with' the base noun.
A furred tongue (caused by dehydration or illness) looks fuzzy but isn't cute at all—our bodies sometimes grow things that look like fur as a sign something's wrong. The word shows how describing texture is essential to medicine and biology.
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