floccose
Botany. consisting of or bearing woolly tufts or long soft hairs.
Origin of floccose
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How to use floccose in a sentence
The plants are usually hygrophanous, but when dry, floccose or slightly silky.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardThis species differs mainly from H. leporinus in that the latter is quite floccose on the pileus.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardPileus is rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, torn into adpressed floccose scales.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardVeil rather thick, floccose, disappearing, leaving remnant on stem and margin of pileus when fresh.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. HardStem even at the base, tapering to a short root, transversely floccose, scaly both above and below the ring.
The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise | M. E. Hard
British Dictionary definitions for floccose
/ (ˈflɒkəʊs) /
consisting of or covered with woolly tufts or hairs: floccose growths of bacteria
Origin of floccose
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