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Definition: FLOCCULUS |
FLOCCULUSNoun1. A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. |
Etymology: Flocculus \Floc"cu*lus\, noun; plural Flocculi. [New Latin expression, diminutive of Latin floccus lock or flock of wool.]. (references) |
Crosswords: FLOCCULUS |
| English words defined with "FLOCCULUS": Floccular, Flocculi. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FLOCCULUS": Streptonigrin. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "FLOCCULUS": floccule. (references) |
| "FLOCCULUS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "FLOCCULUS" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 16 | 87,710 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FLOCCULUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | flocculus du cervelet. (various references) | |
German | Flocculus cerebelli, Flocculus. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | occulusflay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Words rhyming with "FLOCCULUS" (pronounced 'Floc"cu*lus'): Abaculus, AEolus, Alto-cumulus, Alveolus, Angelus, Annulus, Articulus, Asilus, Astragalus, Bacillus, Baetulus, Bolus, Bucephalus, Callus, Canaliculus, Carolus, Cauliculus, Clitellus, Crotalus, Cucullus, Embolus, funiculus, Gladiolus, Glomerulus, hilus, homunculus, hydrocephalus, Lienculus, Limulus, loculus, Malleolus, modiolus, modulus, Monomphalus, Nautilus, Nucellus, Nucleolus, Obelus, Obolus, Ocellus, Oculus, Overplus, Palulus, Palus, Paxillus, Pediculus, Peplus, Pessulus, Phacellus, Phallus. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-f-l-l-o-s-u-u" | |
-2 letters: floccus, loculus, soulful. | |
-3 letters: fucous, oculus. | |
-4 letters: culls, flocs, focus, fouls, fucus, fulls, locus, lulus, scull, sulfo. | |
-5 letters: cols, cull, floc, flus, foul, full, lulu, soul, sulu, ulus. | |
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