flocculent

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

With chloride of platina it forms a flocculent uncrystallized precipitate, which decomposes on the liquid being heated.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Karl Ritter von Scherzer

The wind, hilarious, loud, piping gayly a tuneful stave, shepherded the clouds in the fair fields of the high sky, driving the flocculent white masses here and there as listed a changing will.

From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree

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 Miron Elisha Hard