Having a fluffy or woolly appearance; covered with or containing fluffy clumps or tufts; resembling a flock of wool.
From Latin 'floccus' (lock of wool) plus '-lent' (full of, having), literally meaning 'full of woolly tufts.' Common in scientific descriptions since the 1600s.
Flocculent is the go-to word for anything that looks like it has fluffy clouds in it—from bacterial colonies to ancient astronomical observations to cloudy medical samples!
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