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View synonyms for floccose
floccose
[ flok-ohs ]
floccose
/ ˈflɒkəʊs /
adjective
- consisting of or covered with woolly tufts or hairs
floccose growths of bacteria
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of floccose1
C18: from Latin floccōsus full of flocks of wool
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Example Sentences
The plants are usually hygrophanous, but when dry, floccose or slightly silky.
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This species differs mainly from H. leporinus in that the latter is quite floccose on the pileus.
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Pileus is rather fleshy, convex, then expanded, torn into adpressed floccose scales.
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Veil rather thick, floccose, disappearing, leaving remnant on stem and margin of pileus when fresh.
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Stem even at the base, tapering to a short root, transversely floccose, scaly both above and below the ring.
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