Usually means: Type of tufted, woolly cloud.
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  1. floccus: Merriam-Webster
  2. floccus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floccus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. floccus: Wordnik
  5. floccus: Wiktionary
  6. floccus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. floccus: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Floccus, floccus: Dictionary.com
  9. Floccus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. floccus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Floccus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. floccus: FreeDictionary.org
  13. floccus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. floccus: Encyclopedia

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  1. floccus: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floccus)

noun:  (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
noun:  A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds.

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