Flocculent Definition
flŏkyə-lənt
adjective
Like wool or tufts of wool; fluffy.
Webster's New World
Containing or consisting of small woolly masses.
Webster's New World
Covered with a wool-like substance, as some insects.
Webster's New World
Containing numerous shreds or fluffy particles of grayish or white mucus or other material. Used of a fluid such as urine.
American Heritage Medicine
Of or being a fluid bacterial culture in which there are numerous colonies either floating in the fluid medium or loosely deposited at the bottom.
American Heritage Medicine
noun
(astronomy) Diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy.
Wiktionary
other
(galaxy): multi-arm.
Wiktionary
Origin of Flocculent
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From Latin floccus ‘flock of wool’.
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