Flocculent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having a fluffy or woolly appearance.
  • adj. Chemistry Made up of or containing woolly masses.
  • adj. Zoology Having a soft, waxy, and woollike covering, as certain insects.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Flocculated, resembling bits of wool, woolly.
  • adj. Covered in a woolly substance; downy.
  • adj. Flaky.
  • n. diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
  • adj. Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
  • adj. Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. having a fluffy character or appearance
    • Equivalent
    soft   
    Antonym
    grand design   
    Cross Reference
    flocculent precipitate   
    Hyponym
    multi-arm   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    woolly    gossypine    cottony    flocky    floccose   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pre-pubescent    blackish-brown    squirmy    do    opacous   
     
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