Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Floccus

Floccus , noun

[Latin, a flock of wool.]

1.
(a) (Zoology) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
(b)
(Zoology) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
2.
(Botany) A woolly filament sometimes occurring with the sporules of certain fungi.