Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding a fur or peltry of commercial value, as an animal: sometimes specifically applied to the members of the family Mustelidæ.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality)
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Examples
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ÂFor example - the trap, once set will not discriminate between a fur-bearing target species and an endangered bird or a domesticated dog or cat who is allured by the bait.
Andy Stepanian: Pinnacle: Cruelty-Free Fashion Insiders Reinvent an Icon, Lampoon Wintour (PHOTOS) Andy Stepanian 2011
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For example - the trap, once set will not discriminate between a fur-bearing target species and an endangered bird or a domesticated dog or cat who is allured by the bait.
Andy Stepanian: Pinnacle: Cruelty-Free Fashion Insiders Reinvent an Icon, Lampoon Wintour (PHOTOS) Andy Stepanian 2011
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Many fur-bearing animals are killed daily on fur farms by anal and vaginal electrocution, which ultimately fries their insides, and in the wild by drowning, beating, stomping or trapping.
Chloe Spencer: Friend or Faux: When Faking It Is Something to Be Proud of Chloe Spencer 2011
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Fur is made of hair, but to be classed as a fur-bearing animal the coat has to be the kind which is suitable for making into a pelt, which can be worn by someone else.
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Many fur-bearing animals are killed daily on fur farms by anal and vaginal electrocution, which ultimately fries their insides, and in the wild by drowning, beating, stomping or trapping.
Chloe Spencer: Friend or Faux: When Faking It Is Something to Be Proud of Chloe Spencer 2011
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Many fur-bearing animals are killed daily on fur farms by anal and vaginal electrocution, which ultimately fries their insides, and in the wild by drowning, beating, stomping or trapping.
Chloe Spencer: Friend or Faux: When Faking It Is Something to Be Proud of Chloe Spencer 2011
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But contrary to what historians of the trade's earliest days suggest, the storied American pursuit of fur didn't cease with Britain's disruptive wartime invasion of the rebelling colonies or even with the near extinction of certain fur-bearing animals in the Northeastern colonies.
Review of "Fur, Fortune, and Empire," by Eric Jay Dolin Kirk Davis Swinehart 2010
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So I turned around and came home, called my Mom to have her send thecoughlin to pick up the fur-bearing members of the household, called my garage, called Triple A ... at least the tow truck guy was cute.
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But contrary to what historians of the trade's earliest days suggest, the storied American pursuit of fur didn't cease with Britain's disruptive wartime invasion of the rebelling colonies or even with the near extinction of certain fur-bearing animals in the Northeastern colonies.
Review of "Fur, Fortune, and Empire," by Eric Jay Dolin Kirk Davis Swinehart 2010
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Although dutifully gutted and stripped of their fur-bearing skin in the field by the trappers, the remaining bits of rotting flesh and grizzle began to give off a stink as the pelts thawed in boxes on the warehouse floor.
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