Floccose is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.
You can make 143 anagrams from letters in floccose (ccefloos).
First recorded in 1745-55, floccose is from the Late Latin word floccōsus full of tufts of wool. See floccus, -ose1
These floccose scales are formed as a result of the separation of the annulus from the outer layer of the stem.
Stem hollow and floccose, narrow at top, ventricose; ring evanescent.
floccose, composed of or bearing tufts of woolly or long and soft hairs.
The stem is slender, nearly equal, floccose, bulbous at the base.
There is also a white variety (puellaris) with a floccose squamose cap.
Name from , a lock of wool, in allusion to the floccose down.
It is quite large in size, white or whitish, very woolly or floccose.
The stem is cylindrical or slightly tapering above, hollow or stuffed, floccose scaly and abruptly bulbous below.
floccose scales are thus left on the surface of the stem below the annulus, as in the left hand plant of Fig. 53.
It has a big, ragged, floccose ring, and the pithy stem is inclined to be hollow.
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