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flocculents

flocculents is the plural of flocculent.

Meaning of flocculent

Adjective

flocculent (comparative more flocculent, superlative most flocculent)

  1. Flocculated, resembling bits of wool; woolly.
    • As soon as night begins to spread its darkening shadows over our brief twilight, this active creature [the morepork] sets out on its hunting excursions, roaming over field and gully with soft, noiseless flight, one of the advantages it owes to its flocculent plumage; [...]1871 May, T[homas] H[enry] Potts, “Art. XI.—On the Birds of New Zealand. … (Part II.)”, in James Hector, editor, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 1870, volume III...
  2. Covered in a woolly substance; downy.
  3. Flaky.

Questions about flocculents

What is flocculents the plural of?
Flocculents is the plural of flocculent.

Words near flocculents in the dictionary

  1. flocculency
  2. flocculent
  3. flocculent spiral galaxies
  4. flocculent spiral galaxy
  5. flocculently
  6. flocculents
  7. floccules
  8. flocculi
  9. flocculin
  10. flocculins
  11. flocculonodular

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