floccus
noun
a small tuft of woolly hairs.
flocci
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pluralof floccus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
In Botrytis and in Polyactis, the flocci and spores are similar, but the branches of the threads are shorter and more compact, and the septa are more common and numerous; the oogonia also are absent.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
A very curious little parasite, Echinobotryum atrum, occurs like minute nodules on the flocci of black moulds.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 Thomas Taylor
The species may be known by the thin and comparatively smooth peridium and yellow flocci.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
