underfur

IPA: ˈʌndɝfɝ

The thick, soft undercoat of some mammals, especially those that spend time in the water

Examples of "underfur" in Sentences

Pelage is long and silky with a dense underfur.
Collection of the underfur causes the death of the chiru.
The ventral side is light gray and the underfur is dense and woolly.
The underfur which is soft and dense, serves primarily as an insulator.
The Nicaraguan Rice Rat has a thick, glossy fur with a velvety underfur.
The fur is soft, with dense underfur and long, coarse, thick guard hairs.
The dorsal and ventral underfur is neutral blackish neutral gray in color.
The pelage is thick and luxuriant, with a dense underfur that is a creamy color.
For generations until 1684, the maharajah of Kashmir had exclusive rights to the underfur combed from the throat and belly of this cold old goat.
It is being slaughtered illegally by the thousands for its wool actually, the underfur of the chiru, which is known in the international market as "shahtoosh" or "king of wool."
Fog settles onto damp leaves in the woods - not Prufrock's yellow fog or the amber fog of the suburbs, but a gray-white hanging mist that feels like the down or underfur of some pervasive beast.
In fact, the underfur was no longer available in quantity, for beaver populations had precipitously declined, a hard fact noted by old trappers who remembered the glory days when the animals were so numerous a man could whack them dead with a stick.