Definitions for floccose

floccose floc·cose

Spelling: [flok-ohs]
IPA: /ˈflɒk oʊs/

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).

Definitions for floccose

adjective

  1. Botany. consisting of or bearing woolly tufts or long soft hairs.
  2. flocculent.

Origin of floccose

First recorded in 1745-55, floccose is from the Late Latin word floccōsus full of tufts of wool. See floccus, -ose1

Examples for floccose

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.

Word Value for floccose
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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