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‖ floccus|ˈflɒkəs|
Pl. flocci.
[Lat. floccus flock n.2]
Something resembling a flock of wool. a. Bot. A tuft of woolly hairs; also pl. the hyphæ, or thread-like cells, which form the mycelium of a fungus. b. Zool. (see quot. 1842). c. ‘A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds’ (Webster 1890). d. ‘The down of unfledged birds’ (Worcester 1889).
1842Brande Dict. Sc., Flocci, in Botany, the woolly filaments that are found mixed with the sporules of many Gastromyci. Ibid., Floccus, in Mammalogy, the tuft of long flaccid hairs which terminate the tail. 1874Cooke Fungi 44 The structure of the flocci in a number of species. |