A small tuft or clump, especially of wool, hair, or suspended particles in a liquid.
From Latin 'flocculus' (diminutive of 'floccus,' meaning a lock of wool), describing something small and fluffy like a tuft.
The word appears in anatomy, textiles, chemistry, and even astronomy—wherever scientists see tiny fluffy-looking things, 'flocule' is there to describe them!
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