flocculent
adjective
like a clump or tuft of wool.
flocculence
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a word derived from
flocculent.
Example Sentences
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At worst, we'll have a record of mice and rhinos and fainting goats, our planet's "beautiful flocculence, its beautiful freight", to wonder over in whatever ungreened hell we're careering towards.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2013
Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lake mists felt its beams; dispersed suddenly in silver flocculence; and the path across the blue waters was free for the morning glory that was advancing apace.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
If, through any cause, the air above be chilled, we have descending streams — if the air below be warmed, we have ascending streams as the initial cause of atmospheric flocculence.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
His short hair and beard still clung to his head like curled moss or the crisp flocculence of Astrakhan.
From The Three Partners by Bret Harte
