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A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

 
flocculose, finely floccose, full of small flocks or tufts of wool or soft hairs: flocculosus,-a,-um (adj.A);

- caule erecto flocculoso-scabro, foliis linearibus tomentosis, siliquis pube velutinis et glanduloso-scabris (DeCandolle), with the stem erect, flocculose-scabrous, with linear, tomentose leaves, with the siliques velvety in pubescence or glandulose-scabrous.

- silicnlis obovatis flocculoso-lepidotis (DeCandolle), with the silicles obovate, flocculose-scaly.

flocculoso-crenulatus,-a,-um (adj.A): (in fungi) flocculose-crenulate, “(of gills) having edges with minute, flocculose decoration” (S&D).

flocculoso-lepidotus,-a,-um (adj.A): scaly-floccose, flocculose and also scaly, with small scurfy scales, as in the peridium in Onygenidae (S. Gray).

Broussonetia flocculosa (alga); Diatoma flocculosum, “flocculent Diatom” threads hyaline, forming small brownish tufts (S. Gray); Niphobolus flocculosus.

 

A work in progress, presently with preliminary A through R, and S, and with S (in part) through Z essentially completed.
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