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flocculent

A ที่ มี ลักษณะ เป็น ปุย ขน นิ่ม ที่ คล้าย ขน แกะ floccose

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FLOCCULENT

a.Coalescing and adhering in locks or flakes. I say the liquor is broken to flocculence, when the particles of herbaceous matter, seized by those of the lime, and coalescing, appear large and flocculent.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FLOCCULENT

Floc "cu *lent, a. Etym: [See Flock of wool. ]

1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. Gray.

2. (Zoöl.)

Defn: Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

New American Oxford Dictionary

flocculent

floc cu lent |ˈfläkyələnt ˈflɑkjələnt | ▶adjective having or resembling tufts of wool: the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent. • having a loosely clumped texture: a brown flocculent precipitate. DERIVATIVES floc cu lence noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin floccus ‘tuft of wool ’ + -ulent .

Oxford Dictionary

flocculent

flocculent |ˈflɒkjʊl (ə )nt | ▶adjective having or resembling tufts of wool: the first snows of winter lay thick and flocculent. • having a loosely clumped texture: a brown flocculent precipitate. DERIVATIVES flocculence noun ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Latin floccus ‘tuft of wool ’ + -ulent .