floccusn.
/ˈflɒkəs/, U.S. /ˈflɑkəs/ Something resembling a flock of wool.
a. Botany. A tuft of woolly hairs; also plural the hyphæ, or thread-like cells, which form the mycelium of a fungus.
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 457/1 Flocci, in Botany, the woolly filaments that are found mixed with the sporules of many Gastromyci.
1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 44 The structure of the flocci in a number of species.
b. Zoology (see quot. 1842).
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1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 457/1 Floccus, in Mammalogy, the tuft of long flaccid hairs which terminate the tail.
c. ‘A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds’ (Webster 1890).
d. ‘The down of unfledged birds’ (Worcester 1889).
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