Flocculent

Word FLOCCULENT
Character 10
Hyphenation floc cu lent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Flocculent"

What do we mean by flocculent?

Having a fluffy or woolly appearance. adjective

Containing or made up of small particles that have been aggregated together. adjective

Having a soft, waxy, and woollike covering, as certain insects. adjective

Like a flock of wool; fleecy; woolly.

Specifically Coalescing and adhering in locks or flocks.

In ornithology, like or pertaining to the floccus. See floccus, 2 . Also floccose.

In entomology, covered, as an insect, or any part of it, with a soft, waxy substance, generally white in color and adhering in irregular flakes or strings, often of considerable length, as in many Homoptera.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. adjective

Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds. adjective

Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates. adjective

Flocculated, resembling bits of wool, woolly. adjective

Covered in a woolly substance; downy. adjective

Flaky. adjective

Diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy noun

Having a fluffy character or appearance adjective

Diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy

Having a fluffy or wooly apperence Urban Dictionary

The socially deviant act of fornication with multiple farm animals. Considered by some, an irredeemable sin as it transcends common bestiality. Urban Dictionary

A complicated word designed by chemist to make us lowly common people feel stupid when we don't know what it means though it really means to fluff/ stir Urban Dictionary

A potentially powerful leader, pending arrival in the United States, Pope Lucas the Flocculent accepts followers of every race and creed to His presence. Never to be confused with the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Lucas touts efficiency above all things. Pope Lucas the Flocculent is proficient in a German specialty performance known as the Kerzentrick. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Flocculent

The word "flocculent" in example sentences

NGC 3521, which is 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, is called a flocculent spiral galaxy because of the patchy, woolly look of its spiral arms. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Not in individual stars. produce a multi-armed and patchy spiral structure known as a flocculent spiral. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Before noon clouds surrounded the whole mountain, not in the vague flocculent, meaningless masses one usually sees, but in ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Before noon clouds surrounded the whole mountain, not in the vague flocculent, meaningless masses one usually sees, but in Arctic oceans, where lofty icebergs, floes and pack, lay piled on each other, glistening with the frost of a Polar winter; then alps on alps, and peaks of well remembered ranges gleaming above glaciers, and the semblance of forests in deep ravines loaded with new fallen snow. ❋ Unknown (1867)

By the end of the 19th century, a whole word family had been formed, including the adjective “flocculent,” the noun “floccule,” and the verb “flocculate.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

His chosen method of DNA transfer began with the purification of DNA from cancer cells, grams of it precipitated out of cell extracts in a dense, flocculent suspension, like curdled milk. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

As I smoothed their curly, flocculent fur and received their wet kisses and gazed into their soulful, gentle eyes, I wept. ❋ Jack Canfield (2009)

This flocculent nature was first predicted in a 1964 paper by Toomre and has been simulated numerous times since then. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The flocculent materials settle to the bottom and the stock or clear soup may be decanted, leaving the solids in the bottom. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Complete inertia is my chief memory of hunger; that, and being obliged to spit very frequently, and the spittle being curiously white and flocculent, like cuckoo-spit. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Inside there was a slab upon which lay the great white folds of tripe, and the grey flocculent stuff known as ‘black tripe’, and the ghostly translucent feet of pigs, ready boiled. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The earth was a cold dead heap, coloured drearily, the sky was dark with flocculent grey ash, and she herself an upright mass of soft ash. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The weather had been fine and clear, and in the morning the air was full of patches of the flocculent web, as on an autumnal day in England. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The little spider, when first coming in contact with the rigging, was always seated on a single thread, and not on the flocculent mass. ❋ Unknown (2003)

[the sheep] is a flocculent [animal] ❋ Kaliyaan (2003)

Bernie: "Forgive me Father for I have [sinned]. Since my last confession, I have engaged in flocculation with three sheep, big time. But only once." [Padre]: "My son, for you, you sick [little bastard], there can be no salvation!" ❋ Herr Doktor Grauwolf (2009)

i am going to flocculate this [kool aid] powder and make [som] super yummy [watermelon] flavored kool aid ❋ Ted Perry (2011)

[Behold], His [shining] [radiance], Pope Lucas the Flocculent, is among us! ❋ Darwinthehedonist (2007)

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