a. [f. FLOCCUL-US + -OUS.] Resembling flocculi.
1816. Kirby & Sp., Entomol. (1843), I. 344. A very curious combing or rather curling instrument, composed of two parallel rows of curved spines … with which they comb out the peculiar silky material as it issues from these mammulæ into that flocculous texture which gives the pale-blue fasciculi in question their power of retaining the insects that touch them.
