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Definition of: flocculus
(flok′yə·ləs) noun plural ·li (-lī)
1. A little flake; floccule.
2. A small tuft of wool or woollike hairs.
3. Astron. One of the gaseous cloudlike masses in the chromosphere of the sun.
4. Anat. One of a pair of small lateral lobes in the cerebellum of the higher vertebrates. [<NL. See FLOCCULE.]
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