TUFTED

crested, topknotted, tufted

(adjective) (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination; “golden crested”; “crested iris”; “crested oriole”; “tufted duck”; “tufted loosestrife”

tufted

(adjective) having or adorned with tufts; “a tufted bedspread”

caespitose, cespitose, tufted

(adjective) (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

tufted (not comparable)

Having tufts.

Verb

tufted

simple past tense and past participle of tuft

Source: Wiktionary


Tuft"ed, a.

1. Adorned with a tuft; as, the tufted duck.

2. Growing in tufts or clusters; tufty. The tufted crowtoe, and pale jessamine. Milton. Tufted trees and springing corn. Pope. Tufted duck (Zoöl.), the ring-necked duck. [Local, U.S.]

TUFT

Tuft, n. Etym: [Prov. E. tuff, F. touffe; of German origin; cf. G. zopf a weft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree. See Top summit.]

1. 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.

2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. Keble.

3. 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. [Cant, Eng.] Several young tufts, and others of the faster men. T. Hughes.

Tuft, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tufted; p. pr. & vb. n. Tufting.]

1. To separate into tufts.

2. To adorn with tufts or with a tuft. Thomson.

Tuft, v. i.

Definition: To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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