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flocculent
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floc·cu·lent (flky-lnt)
adj.
1. Having a fluffy or wooly appearance.
2. Containing numerous shreds or fluffy particles of grayish or white mucus or other material. Used of a fluid such as urine.
3. 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.
4. Having a soft waxy or wool-like covering, as of certain insects.
floccu·lence n.
flocculent
[flok′yoo͡lənt]
Etymology: L, floccus, flock of wool
clumped or tufted, such as a cloud, or covered with a woolly, fuzzy surface. flocculate, v., flocculation, floccule, n.
flocculent [flok´u-lent]
containing downy or flaky shreds.
flocculent
woolly, containing downy or flaky shreds; said of bacterial growth composed of short, curved chains, variously oriented.
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for Jordi and Nuria Now we have locked the doors against the snow And feel it falling at each curtained window, The house walls seem to thicken and resist That movement into flocculence and mist, Shapes that take the impression of the winds, Scarving themselves around the gable-ends, Or piling white oblivion on the stones That once were ways, alternatives, directions Refusing to become what they are now-- The unmapped territories of the falling snow.
Snowbound by Tomlinson, Charles / New Criterion
 
 
 
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