floccus
Americannoun
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flocci
plural
adjective
noun
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a downy or woolly covering, as on the young of certain birds
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a small woolly tuft of hair
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of floccus
1835–45; < Latin: tuft of wool
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The ornamental braiding is also more probably due to “frock,” Lat. floccus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
The white superficial flocci will mark the plant.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
There is no capillitium, but yellow flocci are found interspersed with the spores.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The internal mass is of a bluish-black hue, threaded through with white or greyish flocci.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor
The species may be known by the thin and comparatively smooth peridium and yellow flocci.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard
The fertile flocci were decumbent, probably from the weight of the spores, and the tufts were a little elevated above the surface of the matrix.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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