floccus
Americannoun
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 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 Taylor, Thomas
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 Hard, Miron Elisha
In Botrytis and in Polyactis, the flocci and spores are similar, but the branches of the threads are shorter and more compact, and the septa are more common and numerous; the oogonia also are absent.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
P. cylindr. then campan. coarsely striate up to brown disc, at first with white flocci; g. free; s. 10-15 cm. everywhere with white floccose down; sp. 14-16 � 10-12.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George
A very curious little parasite, Echinobotryum atrum, occurs like minute nodules on the flocci of black moulds.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
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