adjective
- like a clump or tuft of wool.
- covered with a soft, woolly substance.
- consisting of or containing loose woolly masses.
- flocky.
- Chemistry. consisting of flocs and floccules.
adjective
- like wool; fleecy
- chem aggregated in woolly cloudlike massesa flocculent precipitate
- biology covered with tufts or flakes of a waxy or wool-like substance
“resembling wool,” 1800, from Latin floccus “lock of hair, flock of wool” + -ulent. Related: Floculence.
adj.
- Having a fluffy or wooly appearance.
- Containing numerous shreds or fluffy particles of grayish or white mucus or other material. Used of a fluid such as urine.
- Of or being a fluid bacterial culture in which there are numerous colonies either floating in the fluid medium or loosely deposited at the bottom.
- Having a soft waxy or wool-like covering, as of certain insects.