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Flocculent   Listen
adjective
Flocculent  adj.  
1.
Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly.
2.
(Zool.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.
3.
(Chem.) Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates.






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"Flocculent" Quotes from Famous Books



... are rarely met with. Perhaps the form of deposit most commonly mistaken for Bright's disease, is that known to medical men as the urates. When the urates are in excess they form a heavy pinkish deposit of a flocculent nature within from five to thirty minutes after the urine has been passed—that is, after it has been passed sufficiently long to cool. To prove that the deposit is urates, heat the specimen to the temperature ...
— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce



Words linked to "Flocculent" :   flocculate, wooly, woolly, soft



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