Flocculent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flocculent \Floc"cu*lent\, a. [See {Flock} of wool.]
     1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. --Gray.
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     2. (Zool.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged
        birds.


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     3. (Chem.) Having a structure like shredded wool, as some
        precipitates.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flocculent
       adj : having a fluffy character or appearance [syn: {woolly}, {wooly}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "flocculent":
     asperous, bristly, bushy, cirrose, flaky, fleecy, furfuraceous,
     furry, fuzzy, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, lentiginous,
     lepidote, matted, pilose, pubescent, scabby, scabious, scabrous,
     scaly, scurfy, shagged, shaggy, squamous, unshorn, woolly