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• When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.From the entry plumelet
• Some birds are feathered tufts of color so resplendent that they stand out brilliantly from their surroundings.2024 October 31, Ari Daniel, “How parrot plumage gets its dazzling reds and yellows”, in NPR, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025. From the entry resplendent
• Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84. From the entry fruticose
• You had to be sure, for instance, that you didn't pick sulphur tufts instead of branching oysters.2012, Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, page 209. From the entry sulphur tuft
• The fasciculol poisons in the sulfur tuft damage the stomach and intestines, causing vomiting and diarrhea.2009, Steve Parker, Molds, Mushrooms & Other Fungi, page 33. From the entry sulfur tuft
• Or an armless corner chair with slightly flared backs, buttonless tufts and an attached flat cushion?2007 December 27, Julie Scelfo, “Marketing Dcor for a Conflicted Era”, in New York Times. From the entry buttonless
• Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front.2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II. From the entry skin job
• A dwarf, tufted, grayish plant with short spikes of pink-rose bilateral flowers nestled among the leaves.1979, Richard Spellenberg, “Shaggy Tuft (Stenandrium barbatum)”, in The Audubon Society field guide to North American wildflowers, western…. From the entry shaggytuft
• The trisetums are tufted perennial grasses (rarely annuals) with flat leaves and loose panicles.1924, Arthur William Simpson, Native American Forage Plants, page 185. From the entry trisetum
• Branches and leaves become covered with the waxy filaments creating a flocculence (wool-like tufts) that indicates a heavy infestation.2003 August, “a psyllid – Boreioglycaspis melaleucae Moore”, in Featured Creatures, University of Florida Department of Entomology &…. From the entry flocculence
• His dark brown hair was all over the shop, sticking out in tufts, and his spectacles were Harry Potterish.2003, Jill Mansell, Falling for You, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry Harry Potterish
• In autumn or spring, superintendents sometimes suspect that yellow tuft (Sclerophthora macrospora) or yellow patch (Rhizoctonia cerealis) diseases are the problem.2002, Peter H. Dernoeden, Creeping Bentgrass Management: Summer Stresses, Weeds and Selected Maladies, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley &…. From the entry yellow patch
• Now nearly all tufted carpeting is made with an extra "skrim" backing of jute, which has eliminated the problem.1989, Harris Mitchell, You wanted to know, →ISBN. From the entry skrim
• Among other birds, the green parakeets were found in abundance, also the red-tailed tropic-bird, which nests in the pumice tufts.1932, Chamber's Journal, volume 1, page 198. From the entry red-tailed tropicbird
• She wiped the warm wax on the left side of Ola’s outer labia and placed a white strip on the last tuft of hair.2023, Yomi Adegoke, The List, 4th Estate, page 168. From the entry labia
• Whether tongue-in-chic or seriously eccentric, fall's most unforgettable heels, flats and sneakers have major flourish with allover fur or delicate tufts of the stuff.2015 March 25, Mosha Lundstrom Halbert, “Women's Footwear Trend: Fur for Fall”, in Footwear News. From the entry tongue-in-chic
• In the mirror on the opposite wall he can see gray half-moons hanging under his eyes, his hair scarecrowing in tufts and waves.2013, Patrick Flanery, “Part I: Shelter”, in Fallen Land, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Riverhead Books, →ISBN, pages 244–245. From the entry scarecrow
• In the pool, something is poking up out of the whip-creamy froth: a black nose, a long snout, a flat head, two tufted ears.2008, Ysabeau S. Wilce, Flora’s Dare: How a Girl of Spirit Gambles All to Expand Her Vocabulary, Confront a Bouncing Boy Terror, and Try…. From the entry whip-creamy
• Among the medieval treasures at Blumka are a lion aquamanile, a vessel used by priests for ceremonial hand washing, with a magnificent tufted tail.2007 October 19, Karen Rosenberg, “Sacred Works in Secular Places”, in New York Times. From the entry aquamanile
• Between them hangs the potato kingdom, Pomerania, with its fields of white potato blossoms, tufts of dense forest, and seaside lagoons inhabited by wild swans.1989 May, Priit J. Vesilind, “The Baltic: Arena of Power”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 626. From the entry Pomerania
• He was wearing a stained white singlet that revealed tufts of black hair under his arms, and slept-in white canvas trousers and rubber-soled sneakers.1954, Ian Fleming, “Death of a Pelican”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 138. From the entry sneaker
• I can hunt another grass tuft, lay another set, and rear my brood in peace while he goes "hiking" after eggs at Flathead.1904, P.M. Silloway, “Extracts from Some Montana Note-books, 1904”, in Bulletin of the Cooper Ornithological Club, volumes 1-6, Cooper…. From the entry hike
• Above the beard his face was unmasked and very thin, concave cheeks falling away from jutting bones, his eyes sunken deep in their sockets under tufted Gandalfian brows.2007, Amanda Hemingway, The Poisoned Crown, Del Rey, →ISBN, page 291. From the entry Gandalfian
• Atop her head were the fluffy ear tufts that his mum was so proud of because they were fuller and lovelier than those of most Great Horned Owls.2006, Kathryn Lasky, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, Book 11: To Be a King, page 88. From the entry mum
• The hoatzin is a very colorful bird with a blue head, a tuft of feathers standing up on the head, and an orange iris in the eye.2006, Buddy Davis, Kay Davis, Breathtaking Birds, page 41. From the entry hoatzin
• Orange ones were at prime on a grassy slope and pale mauve ‘species’ crocusses, usually the first to appear, were in full spate among the slender leaf tufts.2002 November, Mary E[leanor] Gillham, “Western Outliers; Fairwater, Victoria & Thompsons’ Parks”, in A Natural History of Cardiff –…. From the entry crocusses
• Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal.1972, Richard Adams, chapter 50, in Watership Down, London: Macmillan. From the entry tormentil
• Their shields all amuleted, the four points decorated for war with feather tufts, leaned against their spears, which were planted in the ground, or reclined against trees and shrubs.1930, Jack Herbert Driberg, People of the Small Arrow, Payson and Clarke, page 48. From the entry amuleted
• He knew the snipey corners for five miles round, and could move unerringly on the tuft or ditch where the wisp of birds would be found.1923, Shane Leslie, Doomsland, page 68. From the entry snipey
• On his belly he wriggles up to the sanda's hole, rustling the tuft of grass with a noise which resembles the crackling of a snake's scales.1913, Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, page 122. From the entry sanda
• Place the end of a length of string at the fetlock joint (near the ergot, the tubular growth on the back of the fetlock joint, hidden within the hair tuft).2016, Gary Mullen, Horses: Amazing Facts and Trivia, page 102. From the entry ergot

Meaning of tuft

1. noun A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
2. noun A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
3. noun A small clump of trees or bushes.

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How do you use tuft in a sentence?

Tuft is used as a noun and verb. For example: “When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.”

What is a short sentence with tuft?

“When rosy plumelets tuft the larch.”

What does tuft mean?

Tuft means a bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.