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Then he did the same for variations in the sun's flocculi.

From Time Magazine Archive

They develop just after the sun's surface shows "calcium flocculi": a nubbly appearance that signals an unusually large output of ultraviolet light.

From Time Magazine Archive

These are usually exhibited in the form of flocculi following the spot.

From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck

Take the head of a rabbit, the brain of which has been hardened by spirit, and carefully remove cranium; be particularly careful in picking away the periotic bone, on account of the flocculi of cerebellum.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

When radiation has adequately lowered the temperature, these molecules will precipitate; and, having precipitated, they will not remain uniformly diffused, but will aggregate into flocculi; just as water, precipitated from air, collects into clouds.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert