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Webster 1913 Edition

Floccus

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Floc′cus

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Noun.

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pl.

Flocci

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[L., a flock of wool.]

1.

(Zool.)

(a)

The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

(b)

A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

2.

(Bot.)

A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.