flocculi
- plural of flocculus.
Example Sentences
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Then he did the same for variations in the sun's flocculi.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Stretching between the two flocculi, and attached midway to the sides of the nodule, is a thin, white, semilunar-shaped plate of nervous matter, called the inferior medullary velum.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" by Various
Take the head of a rabbit, the brain of which has been hardened by spirit, and carefully remove cranium; be particularly careful in picking away the periotic bone, on account of the flocculi of cerebellum.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
These are usually exhibited in the form of flocculi following the spot.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by Todd, David Peck
