[anglicized form of FLOCCUL-US.] A small portion of matter resembling a flock or tuft of wool.
1845–6. G. E. Day, trans. Simon’s Anim. Chem., II. 93. On boiling it, some floccules separated themselves, but no coagulation took place.
1882. C. A. Young, Sun, ix. 292. As to the form of the floccules, it would seem that the successive precipitation, at different levels and temperatures of different elements in an ascending current, must result in clouds of great vertical extent.
