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floccose

floccose adjective: covered or growing in wooly tufts.

Adjective

floccose (comparative more floccose, superlative most floccose)

  1. Covered or growing in wooly tufts

Forms of floccose

comparativemore floccose
superlativemost floccose

Origin of floccose

Borrowed from Late Latin floccosus.

Words formed from floccose

Questions about floccose

What does floccose mean?
Floccose means covered or growing in wooly tufts.
What part of speech is floccose?
Floccose is an adjective.

Words near floccose in the dictionary

  1. floccing
  2. floccipend
  3. floccipended
  4. floccipending
  5. floccipends
  6. floccose
  7. floccosely
  8. floccosity
  9. flocculable
  10. flocculant
  11. flocculants

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