flocculent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   resembling wool in being loose, soft, and fluffy

   Patches of flocculent spider silk drifted across the ship's rigging.

2. 2
   adj

   consisting of or containing loosely aggregated particles or soft flakes

   A flocculent precipitate formed when the reagent was added to the solution.

Formed from Latin floccus, 'tuft of wool,' + English -ulent, 'abounding in.' Scientific use extended the woolly image to loose masses of fine particles, precipitates, clouds, and patchy structures.

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