Definition of: flocculent

(flok′yə·lənt) adjective
1. Resembling wool; woolly.
2. Of, pertaining to, or like the down of a young bird.
3. Covered with a soft waxy secretion, as certain insects.
4. Coalescing in flakes, as the clumping together of microscopic particles in a liquid.
—floc′cu·lence, floc′cu·len·cy noun
—floc′cu·lent·ly adverb