Definitions for flocculent

flocculent floc·cu·lent

Spelling: [flok-yuh-luh nt]
IPA: /ˈflɒk yə lənt/

Flocculent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 306 anagrams from letters in flocculent (ccefllnotu).

Definitions for flocculent

adjective

  1. like a clump or tuft of wool.
  2. covered with a soft, woolly substance.
  3. consisting of or containing loose woolly masses.
  4. flocky.
  5. Chemistry. consisting of flocs and floccules.

Origin of flocculent

First recorded in 1790-1800; flocc(us) + -ulent

Examples for flocculent

The particles of this pigment are flocculent and very uniform in appearance.

They are very flexible, and easily reducible into a flocculent mass.

The precipitate is a very pale green colour, flocculent at first, but crystalline after washing.

Any substance which has separated from its solution in a solid and, usually, a pulverulent or flocculent form.

Even thus lightened, we could scarcely move the sledge, struggling on, sinking to the thighs in the flocculent deluge.

It was a strip of flocculent, sheepy-looking, little cloudlets that suggested curliness and innocence.

The particles when magnified appear very fine and flocculent.

The oil of winter-green was in a flocculent state at 56 degrees, and solid at 63 degrees.

It is further stated that the "right pleura was coated with flocculent lymph, and the cavity contained serous fluid," etc.

A white, flocculent precipitate results, which rapidly condenses to a crystalline powder, and turns blue on ignition.

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