flocculent

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They invariably come laden with words that seem meant to prove his vocabulary is bigger than yours: flocculent, crapulent, caducous, anaglypta, mephitic, velutinous.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2020

“A vast, flocculent cloud darkened and devitalized the city, mimicking the family mood like weather does in memories.”

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2019

In all these cases tiny flocculent masses of hot and cold air, of slightly differing refrangibility, are mingled together.

From Popular scientific lectures by Mach, Ernst

Complete digestion, at any rate in the Calcutta form, takes several days to accomplish, and after the process is finished a flocculent mass of colourless excreta is emitted from the mouth.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The milk may be more or less stringy, and may show a slimy flocculent sediment.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Hastings, Edwin George