Vocabulary : Floccule to Flockling

Floccule : A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool. ;; Specif.: A small particle of an insoluble substance formed in a liquid by the union of smaller particles.
Flocculence : The state of being flocculent.
Flocculent : Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. ;; Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds. ;; Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates.
Flocculi : of Flocculus
Flocculus : A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.

Floccus : The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. ;; A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds. ;; A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
Flock : A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and other large animals; as, a flock of ravenous fowl. ;; A Christian church or congregation; considered in their relation to the pastor, or minister in charge. ;; To gather in companies or crowds. ;; To flock to; to crowd. ;; A lock of wool or hair. ;; Woolen or cotton refuse (sing. / pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture. ;; Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose. ;; To coat with flock, as wall paper; to roughen the surface of (as glass) so as to give an appearance of being covered with fine flock.
Flocked : of Flock
Flocking : of Flock
Flockling : A lamb.

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