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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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 Miron Elisha Hard
The white superficial flocci will mark the plant.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
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
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 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
