tuft
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1. tuft - Noun
2. tuft - Verb
3. Tuft - Proper noun
Meaning
A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities; -- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
To separate into tufts.
To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
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Absent at birth, the tuft develops around 5 1 2 months of age and is readily identifiable at 7 months.
As of 2010, the only way to protect papaya from this virus is genetic modification. citation The papaya mosaic virus destroys the plant until only a small tuft of leaves are left.
Bryozoan larvae vary in form, but all have a band of cilia round the body which enables them to swim, a tuft of cilia at the top, and an adhesive sac that everts and anchors them when they settle on a surface.
Just as the well-engineered foam mattresses conveniently ordered online at Leesa, and Tuft & Needle have upstaged those on offer at bland Mattress Firm showrooms, the era of lusting for “white sales” is fading fast.
In some lions, the tuft conceals a hard "spine" or "spur", approximately 5 mm long, formed of the final sections of tail bone fused together.
The exceptionally long and muscular tail measures convert, and ends in a bushy white tuft.