flocculent

• A baleada is a Honduran treat, a small and supple flour tortilla flopped over a filling of earthy beans and flocculent cheese. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
• Recent polychaete families originated in an adaptive radiation following the migration of the ancestral annelids into the flocculent detrital layers in shallow marine muds and from there onto hard bottoms and other specialized environments. fauchald phylogeny polychaete setae CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• They were tolerably solid internally, each containing about the size of a pea of clear ice at the centre, but the sides and angles were spongy and flocculent, as if the particles had been driven together by the force of the wind, and had coalesced at the instant of contact. —  Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• They have on their side more than the 'reasonable probability' deemed sufficient by Bishop Butler for practical guidance in the gravest affairs, that the members of the solar system which are now discrete once formed a continuous mass; that in the course of untold ages, during which the work of condensation, through the waste of heat in space, went on, the planets were detached; and that our present sun is the residual nucleus of the flocculent or gaseous ball from which the planets were successively separated. —  Fragments of science, V. 1-2
• The gold is flocculent, its source as mysterious as that of the Saskatchewan, if the theory that the latter was washed out of the Selkirks before the upheaval of the Rockies is astray A fresh moose head, seen lying on the bank, indicated a hunting party, but no human life was seen aside from our own people. —  Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899

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