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shaggy tuft

shaggy tuft is the alternative form of shaggytuft.

Meaning of shaggytuft

Noun

shaggytuft

  1. (obsolete) A rug made of cotton shag.
    • Shaggytuft, a high pile shaggy surfaced cotton rug with a lustrous sheen which is laundered and pre-shrunk. Shaggytuft is shown in 20 decorative colors, including chartreuse, gray, dusty rose, cantaloupe, golden glow[…]1938, Rug Profits, volume 28
  2. Any of the genus Stenandrium of flowering plants.
    • 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 region, page 316

Questions about shaggy tuft

What is shaggy tuft the alternative form of?
Shaggy tuft is the alternative form of shaggytuft.

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