Usually means: Covered with soft, woolly hairs.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word floccose:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. floccose: Merriam-Webster
  2. floccose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floccose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. floccose: Collins English Dictionary
  5. floccose: Vocabulary.com
  6. floccose: Wordnik
  7. floccose: Wiktionary
  8. floccose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. floccose: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Floccose, floccose: Dictionary.com
  11. Floccose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. floccose: Rhymezone
  13. Floccose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. floccose: FreeDictionary.org
  15. floccose: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. floccose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. floccose: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. floccose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. floccose: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Flora of New South Wales (No longer online)
  3. Floccose: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (floccose)

▸ adjective:  (botany, mycology) Covered or growing in wooly tufts

Similar:
hirsute, hairy, flocculose, fucoidal, fibrillose, tomentose, fibrillous, fascicled, favose, flosculous, more...

Opposite:
smooth, sleek, hairless, bald

Types:
cottony, woolly, downy, fluffy, frizzy, hairy, shaggy, velvety, more...

Phrases:
floccose chanterelle, more...

Adjectives:
densely, white, first, loose, more, aerial, fimbriate

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Similar:
hirsute, hairy, flocculose, fucoidal, fibrillose, tomentose, fibrillous, fascicled, favose, flosculous, more...

Opposite:
smooth, sleek, hairless, bald

Types:
cottony, woolly, downy, fluffy, frizzy, hairy, shaggy, velvety, more...

Phrases:
floccose chanterelle, more...

Adjectives:
densely, white, first, loose, more, aerial, fimbriate



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