Definition of "floccose" [floc•cose]

• Botany Covered with tufts of soft hair, as the fruits of quince. (adjective)

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• "I had made these with my own hands, and styled them on the Ethiopian model of beauty, full and floccose."
• "(New South Wales), Autun, etc., boghead have shown us merely a yellowish-brown amorphous mass holding in suspension lens-shaped or radiating floccose masses which it is scarcely possible to refer to any known vegetable organism."
• "[Footnote 1: On rotten wood.] [Footnote 2: A floccose ring.] [Footnote 3: At first, adpressed to stem.] [Footnote 4: Top shaped.]"