flocculent
IPA: fɫˈɑkjʌɫʌnt
adjective
- Flocculated, resembling bits of wool; woolly.
- Covered in a woolly substance; downy.
- Flaky.
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Examples of "flocculent" in Sentences
- Not in individual stars. produce a multi-armed and patchy spiral structure known as a flocculent spiral.
- Before noon clouds surrounded the whole mountain, not in the vague flocculent, meaningless masses one usually sees, but in
- As I smoothed their curly, flocculent fur and received their wet kisses and gazed into their soulful, gentle eyes, I wept.
- By the end of the 19th century, a whole word family had been formed, including the adjective “flocculent,” the noun “floccule,” and the verb “flocculate.”
- NGC 3521, which is 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, is called a flocculent spiral galaxy because of the patchy, woolly look of its spiral arms.
- His chosen method of DNA transfer began with the purification of DNA from cancer cells, grams of it precipitated out of cell extracts in a dense, flocculent suspension, like curdled milk.
- Before noon clouds surrounded the whole mountain, not in the vague flocculent, meaningless masses one usually sees, but in Arctic oceans, where lofty icebergs, floes and pack, lay piled on each other, glistening with the frost of a Polar winter; then alps on alps, and peaks of well remembered ranges gleaming above glaciers, and the semblance of forests in deep ravines loaded with new fallen snow.
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