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单词 flocculent
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Definition of flocculent in English:

flocculent

adjective ˈflɒkjʊl(ə)ntˈflɑkjələnt
  • 1Having or resembling tufts of wool.

    the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • She addressed only me in a silky and flocculent voice, biting her lip teasingly after her words.
    • Personally, I find his style too flocculent for words.
    • Other galaxies have more chaotic, patchy arms that look like fleece on a sheep; these are called flocculent galaxies.
    • The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
    • Angie would never forget flocculent brown hair that was easily messed up when the wind blew through it.
    Synonyms
    fleecy, woolly, fuzzy, shaggy, hairy, feathery, downy, furry, velvety, cushiony
    1. 1.1 Having a loosely clumped texture.
      a brown flocculent precipitate
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The littoral sediments of the experimental lakes are primarily flocculent organic material including abundant epipelon.
      • Note the accumulation of flocculent material and vesicles between the cytoplasm and cell wall and also the osmiophilic margin of the viscid secretion.
      • The spectacle of the female medium in pain - a body often tied down, exposed in various stages of undress, or both - threatens to overshadow the curious display of flocculent ectoplasmic oozings and their iconographic content.
      • Consider the flocculent muscle of the cumulus.
      • The clear cells were larger than the oncocytic cells and had abundant clear cytoplasm that was not water clear but exhibited lightly eosinophilic flocculent or reticulated strands.
      • The downstream section was 50 to 60 m wide, straight, and substratum consisted of flocculent mud, 20 to 100 cm deep.
      • Secretory cells either contain many small vacuoles or a single larger vacuole with flocculent contents and numerous vesicles.
      • After cooling, the flocculent precipitate was removed by centrifugation at 4 [degrees] C, 1,000 g for 10 min.
      • When the assay was performed manually, a fine white flocculent precipitate, but no change in color, was noted after both R1 and R2 reagents were added to serum for both the first and second patients.
      • Additionally, samples from the flocculent layer and from a semipurified bacterial mat were incubated under controlled oxygen conditions to determine production.
      • As expected, this group included heme-deficient mutants and flocculent isolates, which were disregarded.
      • During 1957, an orange flocculent precipitate containing metal sulphides appeared in the spring pool and became incorporated in the marginal sinter.
      • Moreover, in flocculent strains it is difficult to distinguish between two adherent cells and a cell with a large bud.
      • Electron microscopy showed membrane-bound vacuoles that contained reticulogranular and flocculent material, dense bodies, lamellar inclusions, and lipofuscin.
      • But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
      • High l inear rates of sediment accumulation, and preservation of distinct sediment horizons in the flocculent surface muds, argue against significant influence of bioturbation on record resolution.
      Synonyms
      fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy

Derivatives

  • flocculence

  • noun
    • In fact, several of the class 2 mutations still display increased flocculence.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These men, despite unfortunate colouring and flocculence, are easy to tell apart.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin floccus 'tuft of wool' + -ulent.

 
 

Definition of flocculent in US English:

flocculent

adjectiveˈfläkyələntˈflɑkjələnt
  • 1Having or resembling tufts of wool.

    the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Personally, I find his style too flocculent for words.
    • She addressed only me in a silky and flocculent voice, biting her lip teasingly after her words.
    • Angie would never forget flocculent brown hair that was easily messed up when the wind blew through it.
    • Other galaxies have more chaotic, patchy arms that look like fleece on a sheep; these are called flocculent galaxies.
    • The Englishman held a lofty finger in the air, and his flocculent hair blew upright in the sea breeze, giving him the look of an unfashionable popinjay.
    Synonyms
    fleecy, woolly, fuzzy, shaggy, hairy, feathery, downy, furry, velvety, cushiony
    1. 1.1 Having a loosely clumped texture.
      a brown flocculent precipitate
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The littoral sediments of the experimental lakes are primarily flocculent organic material including abundant epipelon.
      • The clear cells were larger than the oncocytic cells and had abundant clear cytoplasm that was not water clear but exhibited lightly eosinophilic flocculent or reticulated strands.
      • The spectacle of the female medium in pain - a body often tied down, exposed in various stages of undress, or both - threatens to overshadow the curious display of flocculent ectoplasmic oozings and their iconographic content.
      • Electron microscopy showed membrane-bound vacuoles that contained reticulogranular and flocculent material, dense bodies, lamellar inclusions, and lipofuscin.
      • When the assay was performed manually, a fine white flocculent precipitate, but no change in color, was noted after both R1 and R2 reagents were added to serum for both the first and second patients.
      • High l inear rates of sediment accumulation, and preservation of distinct sediment horizons in the flocculent surface muds, argue against significant influence of bioturbation on record resolution.
      • As expected, this group included heme-deficient mutants and flocculent isolates, which were disregarded.
      • Consider the flocculent muscle of the cumulus.
      • But first, the poor thing must endure violent convulsions: ‘In great heaving waves the old hero would vomit basinfuls of gruelly white flocculent matter, the color of soap in hard water.’
      • Secretory cells either contain many small vacuoles or a single larger vacuole with flocculent contents and numerous vesicles.
      • During 1957, an orange flocculent precipitate containing metal sulphides appeared in the spring pool and became incorporated in the marginal sinter.
      • Note the accumulation of flocculent material and vesicles between the cytoplasm and cell wall and also the osmiophilic margin of the viscid secretion.
      • Additionally, samples from the flocculent layer and from a semipurified bacterial mat were incubated under controlled oxygen conditions to determine production.
      • The downstream section was 50 to 60 m wide, straight, and substratum consisted of flocculent mud, 20 to 100 cm deep.
      • Moreover, in flocculent strains it is difficult to distinguish between two adherent cells and a cell with a large bud.
      • After cooling, the flocculent precipitate was removed by centrifugation at 4 [degrees] C, 1,000 g for 10 min.
      Synonyms
      fleecy, shaggy, hairy, fluffy

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin floccus ‘tuft of wool’ + -ulent.

 
 
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