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They develop just after the sun's surface shows "calcium flocculi": a nubbly appearance that signals an unusually large output of ultraviolet light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then he did the same for variations in the sun's flocculi.

From Time Magazine Archive

The degree of condensation causing spiral movement, is a degree of condensation also implying masses of flocculi that are larger, and therefore more visible, than those existing in an earlier stage.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Its most usual and characteristic appearance is that of a grayish liquid containing whitish flocculi.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Whirling round rapidly in eddying flocculi, they quickly tailed away to the north, evaporating and disappearing.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir