The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, 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.
--I. P.
Roberts.
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocculated; p. pr. & vb. n. Flocculating.] (Geol.) To aggregate into small lumps.
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"gather in flocculent masses," 1845 (flocculated), from flocculus (1799), from Modern Latin, a diminutive of Latin floccus "flock of wool" (see flock (n.2)) + -ate (2). Related: Flocculating.
Wiktionary
vb. (cx ambitransitive English) To collect together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool.
WordNet
v. cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material"
form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated"
Usage examples of "flocculate".
Their greatest pleasure was to sit along a girder and open their amplified senses to the depths of space, watching stars past the limits of ultraviolet and infrared, or staring into the flocculate crawling plaque of the surface of the sun, or just sitting and soaking in watts of solar energy through their skins while they listened with wired ears to the warbling of Van Allen belts and the musical tick of pulsars.
You'd have been rasped into a thousand tiny bits, grated like cheese and flocculated alive!