flocculent
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They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous.
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020
“A vast, flocculent cloud darkened and devitalized the city, mimicking the family mood like weather does in memories.”
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019
The pileus is some shade of yellow, convex, inflexed, smooth, flocculent or scaly.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
Hymenium ribbed, of a tough, fleshy substance, rather rigid, then collapsing and flocculent.
From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha
In all these cases tiny flocculent masses of hot and cold air, of slightly differing refrangibility, are mingled together.
From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst
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