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Webster 1913 Edition
Flocculent
1.
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
Gray.
2.
(Zool.)
Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
Webster 1828 Edition
Flocculent
FLOC'CULENT
,Adj.
I say the liquor is broken to flocculence, when the particles of herbaceous matter, seized by those of the lime, and coalescing, appear large and flocculent.
Definition 2024
flocculent
flocculent
English
Adjective
flocculent (comparative more flocculent, superlative most flocculent)
Translations
Derived terms
Noun
flocculent (plural flocculents)
- (astronomy) diminutive of flocculent spiral galaxy
Antonyms
- (galaxy): grand design
Hyponyms
- (galaxy): multi-arm