flocculate

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: floc=cu=late

CIDE DICTIONARY

flocculate, v. i. 

 To aggregate into small lumps.  [1913 Webster]

flocculate, a. 

 Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.  [1913 Webster]

flocculate, v. 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.