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