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
tufted (not comparable)
Having tufts.
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, 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
22 September 2024
(noun) a beginning from which an enterprise is launched; “he uses other people’s ideas as a springboard for his own”; “reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions”; “the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
