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floc | floccillation | floccose | floccose chanterelle | floccular | flocculate | flocculation | floccule | flocculence | flocculent | flocculus

flocculate

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Verb (usu participle)
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floc=cu=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

flocculatev. i. 
     To aggregate into small lumps.  [1913 Webster]
flocculatea. 
     Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.  [1913 Webster]
flocculatev. t. 
     To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves its mechanical condition.
    "When applied to clay soils it [lime] binds the small particles together, or flocculates them."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

flocculate, v.tr. & intr. form into flocculent masses.

Derivative
flocculation n.

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