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floccose

ADJECTIVE
  1. (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs

How To Use floccose In A Sentence

  • I had made these with my own hands, and styled them on the Ethiopian model of beauty, full and floccose. River God
  • The = pileus = is hemispherical to convex, and expanded, smooth, whitish, with a tinge of straw color, and covered with torn, thin floccose patches of the upper half of the circumscissile volva. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • The stem is fleshy to fibrous, the same color as the pileus, floccose scaly more or less up to the veil, smooth or white pruinose above the veil, straight or curved, somewhat striate below. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • These floccose scales are formed as a result of the separation of the annulus from the outer layer of the stem. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • (New South Wales), Autun, etc., boghead have shown us merely a yellowish-brown amorphous mass holding in suspension lens-shaped or radiating floccose masses which it is scarcely possible to refer to any known vegetable organism. Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885
  • White floccose scales on cap (var. coroniferum) and appendiculate veil; caps whitish or brown, tawny, or tinge of ochre. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • [Footnote 1: On rotten wood.] [Footnote 2: A floccose ring.] [Footnote 3: At first, adpressed to stem.] [Footnote 4: Top shaped.] Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • The = stem = is cylindrical, even, or slightly tapering upward, hollow or stuffed, not bulbous, smooth, or with mealy particles or prominent floccose scales. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • = -- Present or absent, persistent or disappearing, whether it splits at apex or is circumscissile, or all crumbly and granular or floccose, whether the part on the pileus forms warts, and then the kind, distribution, shape, persistence, etc. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
  • [Footnote 1: On rotten wood.] [Footnote 2: A floccose ring.] [Footnote 3: At first, adpressed to stem.] [Footnote 4: Top shaped.] Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
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