floccose
(adjective) (of plants) having tufts of soft woolly hairs
Source: WordNet® 3.1
floccose (not comparable)
(botany, mycology) Covered or growing in wooly tufts
Source: Wiktionary
Floccose", a. Etym: [L. floccosus. Cf. 2d Flock, n.]
1. Spotted with small tufts like wool. Wright.
2. (Bot.)
Definition: Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
