American English pronunciation
How to pronounce tuft
IPA transcription: ['tʌft]
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Noun
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a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
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a bunch of feathers or hair
Usage examples
- Bulbous buttercup is known to form tufts.
- Candytuft is a cold hardy, fast-growing annual with lance shaped green leaves.
- It grows in tufts, sometimes loosely, generally in damp places and on open gravel.
- After settling, the foot and frontal tuft attach to the surface.
- These species have culms growing in large tufts, often somewhat scandent.
- In the Araucana chicken breed, ear tufts are a mutation.
- Tufton received his early education at Westminster School.
- The large ear tufts slant off to the sides.
- The larvae also tend to have muted colors and tufts of short hairs.
- Common tern, tufted duck, ringed and little ringed plover, common redshank and northern lapwing.