floccoseadj.
/flɒˈkəʊs/ 1. Furnished with a tuft (or tufts) of woolly hair. ? Obsolete.
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the world > animals > mammals > [adjective] > of parts of > having coat of specific kind
shaggeda1000
wire-haired1750
floccose1752
lissotrichous1880
short-coated1890
1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 542 The tail [of the lion] is long, thick, and floccose.
2. Botany. Covered with or composed of flocci.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [adjective] > of, bearing, or characterized by parts
umbonated1752
operculate1775
veiled1776
adnexed1821
pileate1828
sorediferous1829
umbonate1829
floccose1830
adglutinate1831
angiosporous1847
stylosporous1851
byssoid1857
mycelioid1857
sclerotioid1857
soredioid1857
pileiform1858
basidiosporous1859
pileated1859
sorediform1859
tigellular1860
tetradymous1866
tigellate1866
mycelial1867
xylostromatoid1871
hymenial1874
hyphal1875
aecidial1876
pycnidial1877
teleutosporic1880
sorediate1881
pollinodial1886
peridial1887
promycelial1887
mycelian1891
uredosporiferous1895
uredosporous1895
hemiangiocarpous1900
uredinial1900
periplasmic1901
hemiangiocarpic1902
wefted1902
zygophoric1904
aecial1905
pycnial1905
telial1905
sporodochial1913
holocarpic1916
uredinoid1929
uredial1937
monokaryotic1941
protoperithecial1948
parathecial1953
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 331 In the..foliaceous species [of Lichens], the medulla is distinctly floccose.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi (1875) 74 The spores..nestling on the floccose mycelium.
Derivatives
floˈccosely adv. in a floccose manner.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [adverb] > covered with flocci or thread-like cells
floccosely1840
1840–68 J. Paxton Bot. Dict. Floccosely-tomentose, down, disposed in little tufts.
1847 in J. Craig New Universal Dict.
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adj.1752