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floccose

Meaning of "floccose" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FLOCCOSE

From Latin floccōsus full of flocks of wool.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FLOCCOSE

ˈflɒkəʊs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FLOCCOSE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Floccose is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FLOCCOSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of floccose in the English dictionary

The definition of floccose in the dictionary is consisting of or covered with woolly tufts or hairs.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FLOCCOSE

arkose · bellicose · cicatricose · fruticose · fucose · jocose · kos · mucose · succose · varicose · ventricose · verrucose · viscose · vorticose

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLOCCOSE

floc · flocci · floccillation · flocculant · floccular · flocculate · flocculation · flocculator · floccule · flocculence · flocculency · flocculent · flocculently · flocculi · flocculus · floccus · flock · flock paper · flock wallpaper · flockless

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLOCCOSE

arose · choose · chose · close · corticose · cose · dextroglucose · glucose · glycose · hose · lose · muscose · on the loose · on the nose · purpose · rose · suffruticose · talcose · those · whose

Synonyms and antonyms of floccose in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «floccose» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLOCCOSE

Find out the translation of floccose to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of floccose from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «floccose» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

絮状
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

flocoso
570 millions of speakers
en

English

floccose
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

floccose
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عهني
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

хлопьевидными
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

floccose
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

floccose
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

floconneux
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Floccose
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

floccose
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

綿毛状の
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

floccose
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Floccose
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

floccose
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

floccose
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

फ्लॉकोझ
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yüne benzer
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

fioccoso
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

floccose
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

пластівчастими
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

floccose
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κροκυδώδεις
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

floccose
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flockös
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dunete
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of floccose

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLOCCOSE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about floccose

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLOCCOSE»

Discover the use of floccose in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to floccose and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fungi and Food Spoilage
M.B. Ellis is a floccose taxon accepted as a variety of C. lunata. Colonies of C. lunata var. aeria on CYA 50–65 mm diam, plane, floccose, of pale to mid grey mycelium, reverse deep blue black. Colonies on MEA covering the whole Petri dish, ...
John I. Pitt, Ailsa D. Hocking, 2009
2
Magnoliophyta: Caryophyllidae
Leaves: blade linear, 0.5-0.8 x 0.05-0.1 cm, densely white-tomentose adaxially, sparsely floccose or glabrous and green adaxially, margins revolute. Inflorescences 0.5-2.5 cm; branches sparsely floccose or glabrous. Involucres 2- 3 mm, ...
Flora of North America Editorial Committee, 2005
3
Flora of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent plains, Colorado, ...
Stem 2-5 dm. high, loosely floccose, very tardily glabrate; basal leaves petioled, 3 -10 cm. long; blades ovate or elliptic, floecose when young, glabrate in age; lower stem-leaves petioled, lyrate-pinnatifid, with oblong lobes, the upper sessile,  ...
Per Axel Rydberg, 1917
4
Flora of the British Isles
The inner involucral bracts are very slightly floccose below with a few glandular and white black-based simple hairs. The ligules are shortly ciliate- tipped and the styles dark. H. mirandum P. D. Sell & C. West, very rare in N. England, differs in ...
A. R. Clapham, T. G. Tutin, D. M. Moore, 1990
5
North American Flora
blades ovate to obovate, decurrent below, sinuate-denticulate, floccose above, white-tomentose beneath, 3-5 cm. long; heads 2-4, subsessile, clustered at the end of the scape; involucre 8 mm. high and 10-12 nun. broad; bracts narrowly ...
6
Dictionary of Trees, Volume 2: South America: Nomenclature, ...
... 14442 flexanthera, 6043 flexible guatteria, 6509 floccose cinnamon, 2851 floccose coussapoa, 3752 floccose croton, 3986 floccose matisia, 9255 floccose maya, 9726 floccose mimosa, 10115 floccose ocotea, 11040 floccose polymorphous ...
M.M. Grandtner, Julien Chevrette, 2013
7
A California Flora
1-4 mm. long, 0.5-2 mm. wide; heads 2.5-3.5 cm. in diam.; calyx densely floccose, the lobes acuminate, 1.5-2.2 wide at base, ca. 2.5 mm. long, with recurved tip; corolla 9-10 mm. long, the oval lobes 2.2-3.2 mm. wide, 3-3.5 mm. long; fils.
Philip Alexander Munz, 1973
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A General System of Gardening and Botany: Containing a ...
clothed with floccose tomentum ; leaves oblong, obtuse, crenated, truncate or subcordate at the base, greenish above, and clothed with white tomentum beneath ; bracteas oblong-lanceolate, and are, as well as the calyxes, clothed with white ...
George Don, 1838
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A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants: Comprising ...
clothed with floccose tomentum; leaves oblong, obtuse, crenated, truncate or subcordate at the base, greenish above, and clothed with white tomentum beneath; bracteas oblong-lanceolate, and are, as well as the calyxes, clothed with white ...
George Don, 1838
10
Excursion Flora of the British Isles
Heads small, numerous, in a subcorymbose panicle, the peduncles densely floccose and glandular. lnvolucre dark brownish-green, densely glandular; bracts few, incurved in bud, the outer short and acute, the inner long blunt. Ligules ciliate- ...
Arthur Roy Clapham, Thomas Gaskell Tutin, E. F. Warburg, 1981

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLOCCOSE»

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What words really mean: David Foster Wallace's dictionary
(There's also floccose, but this is used mainly of odd little hairy fruits like kiwi and quince.) Then there are the pil-based words, all derived from ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 12»
2
Celebrating Autumn All Year Round ... By Becoming A Leaf
pinnate, ciliate, barbellate, bearded, canescent, glabrous, glandular, viscid, scurfy, floccose, arachnoid, and my favorite, tomentose (covered ... «NPR, Oct 12»
3
The Glory of Leaves
... viscid, scurfy, floccose, arachnoid, and my favorite, tomentose (covered with woolly hairs). But putting the variety of structures aside, most leaves do essentially ... «National Geographic, Sep 12»
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