flocci
- plural of floccus.
Example Sentences
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A very curious little parasite, Echinobotryum atrum, occurs like minute nodules on the flocci of black moulds.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The fertile flocci were decumbent, probably from the weight of the spores, and the tufts were a little elevated above the surface of the matrix.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The white superficial flocci will mark the plant.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
There is no capillitium, but yellow flocci are found interspersed with the spores.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
The internal mass is of a bluish-black hue, threaded through with white or greyish flocci.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
