tuft

[US]/tʌft/

[UK]/tʌft/

Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a cluster or bunch (of hair, feathers, grass, etc.); a small clump or cluster of plants; a small group of trees or shrubs；a sycophant; a person who ingratiates themselves with the powerful; a person who is ostentatiously attentive to those in power
vt.to decorate with clusters or bunches of tufted material
vi.to form into a cluster or bunch; to grow in clusters

Phrases & Collocations

tuft of hair

tuft of grass

tufted sofa

Example Sentences

scrubby tufts of grass.

Fear ambush at every tree and tuft of grass.

The baby only had a few tufts of hair on its head.

he brushed his hair, leaving a tuft standing on end.

The beaches, sandy in the western part of the town, are covered only with tufts of halophilous grasses.

She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at the tufted counterpane .

Characteristics: Terrestrial ferns; stipes tuft, backlish at base; young fronds pinnaye with wider pinnae, when getting older, the fronds become bipinnate or tripinnatifid with slender pinnules.

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