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flocked

verb

Etymology

From flock (“tufts of wool, lock of hair”).

Definitions

  1. simple past and past participle of flock

  2. Having split, bushy ends.

  3. Having dense fibers with a desirable nap to optimize collection and elution of specimens.

    • the sampling and elution advantages of flocked swabs versus spun swabs
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Covered with artificial snow.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for flocked. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA