floccose

Borrowed from Late Latin floccosus.

floccose (comparative more floccose, superlative most floccose)

1. (botany, mycology) Covered or growing in wooly tufts

• flocculose

• “floccose”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.

floccōse

1. vocative masculine singular of floccōsus