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floc·cose

 (flŏk′ōs)
adj. Botany
Covered with tufts of soft hair, as the fruits of quince.

[Late Latin floccōsus, from Latin floccus, tuft of wool.]
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floccose

(ˈflɒkəʊs)
adj
consisting of or covered with woolly tufts or hairs: floccose growths of bacteria.
[C18: from Latin floccōsus full of flocks of wool]
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Adj.1.floccose - (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs
plant life, flora, plant - (botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion
haired, hairy, hirsute - having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar"
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Colonies on MEA growing rapidly reaching 4.5 - 5.0 cm in 7 days at 25 +- 2 AdegC without zonation, colony texture was velutinous to floccose white from center, dark brown to black in color and creamy yellow in reserve.
The mycelium was hyaline, brown or both, sometimes abundant, at times sparse with floccose, loose or compact growth.
Macroscopic features of F2 strain when grown on potato dextrose agar (PDA) medium for 7 days at 25degC, showed colony diameter 18-27 mm, plane or umbonate, radially and concentrically sulcate or wrinkled, low to moderately deep, mycelium white, texture velutinous to slightly floccose, exudate clear to yellow-brown, red-brown soluble pigment occasionally produced (Fig.
Cultural and morphological characteristics of Trichoderma isolates Name of Colony Colony Common characters among all the color edge isolates isolate AT1 Dark green Wavy Conidial color: AT2 Dark green Wavy GreenConidiophore branching: AT3 Dark green Wavy Highly branched AT4 Dark green Wavy regularMycelial form Floccose AT5 Dark green Wavy to ArachnoidReverse color : AT6 Dark green Wavy ColorlessColony growth rate AT7 Dark green Wavy (cm-day) : 8-9 in 3 BT1 Light green Wavy daysMycelial color : Watery BT2 Light green Wavy white BT3 Light green Smooth BT4 Light green Smooth BT5 Light green Smooth BT6 Light green Wavy BT7 Light green Wavy BT8 Light green Wavy BT9 Light green Smooth BT10 Light green Smooth BT11 Light green Smooth BT12 Light green Smooth BT13 Light green Smooth Table 4.
Moderately expanding, velvety, and olive green coloured colonies with floccose centre were yielded and confirmed the organism as Cladosporium oxysporum and then the final diagnosis was phaeohyphomycosis (Figures 4(a) and 4(b)).
Veil present covering up the gills in young basidiomata, then producing abundant remnants on the pileus margin of mature specimens, also a floccose annulus on the stipe apex, white (28A1), often fragile and collapsing.
Keywords: Microspora floccose, Algae, Biofuel, Renewable Energy, Extraction, Characterization
Out of 18 positive samples for dermatophytes, 9 samples revealed growth of zonate colonies with powdery center and floccose at periphery with ellipsoidal, starburst like colonies and color of medium changed from amber to red during colony growth.
Davis riddles poems with Shakespearean moments like "o sweet floccose!" and "if evil choose a place to lay its wrack/ it lie(s) with 'i': that stenched and (w)retched dish." At the end of the poem "Sonnet (Silenced)" (one of several "shattered" sonnets, a form she's been working at for over a decade now), Davis pleads, "o sterilize the lyricism of / my sentence: make me plain again my love." I find both methods bracing: Zucker's deliberately flat-footed prose (in the face of her earlier, more lyric and allusive work) and Davis's etymological high-wire act are two ways of getting at similar material/self.
Cibberella fujikuroi mycelia appeared floccose with white to pale pink colored and slowly becoming cotton grass-like and salmonpink color, with a vinaceous ring at the center of the colony.