verb
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To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
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To form into tufts.
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To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.
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To be formed into tufts.
adjective
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Having tufts.
Examples of tufted in a Sentence
The species of the genus Lemur are diurnal, and may be recognized by the length of the muzzle, and the large tufted ears.
Among other characteristics of these animals may be noticed the great length of the neck and limbs, the complete absence of lateral toes and the long and tufted tail.
Charming little tufted plants requiring good loamy soil, and sometimes included with Anemone.
The most marked feature of the tree is its long tufted foliage - the leaves, of a bright green tint, springing from long white sheaths, being often a foot in length.
They have heavily fringed necks and tufted tails; the bucks carry long sublyrate and heavily ringed horns, but the does are horn- - - less.
This animal, also called the bear-cat, is allied to the palm-civets, or paradoxures, but differs from the rest of the family (Viverridae) by its tufted ears and long, bushy, prehensile tail, which is thick at the root and almost equals in length the head and body together (from 28 to 33 inches).
Lynxes are found in the northern and temperate regions of both the Old and New World; they are smaller than leopards, and larger than true wild cats, with long limbs, short stumpy tail, ears tufted at the tip, and pupil of the eye linear when contracted.
Tufted Muntjacs, Genus Elaphodus.
For the small eastern deer, respectively known as muntjacs (Cervulus) and tufted muntjacs or tufted deer (Elaphodus), see Muntjac; while under Water-Deer will be found a notice of the Chinese representative of the genus Hydrela phus (or Hydropoles).
In other cases the branches grow upwards through the sheaths which they ultimately split from above, and emerging as aerial shoots give a tufted habit to the plant.
The last-mentioned species, by its frontal tuft, small rounded ears, general brown coloration, and minute antlers, connects the typical muntjacs with the small tufted deer or tufted muntjacs of the genus Elaphodus of eastern China and Tibet.
Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
They often grow in a tufted habit in small crevices or fissures on rock faces.
A second brood of five Tufted duck ducklings was present on the lake, where the Little Grebes continued to incubate.
On deeper water great crested and little grebes breed, breeding duck include gadwall and tufted duck.
In Winter, up to 2,000 wildfowl have been seen on the lake including the goldeneye, pochard, tufted duck and widgeon.
We encountered a group of tufted jays and birds came thick and fast after that.
The sofa bed easily unfolds to present a comfortable spring interior, tufted mattress.
This is one of the most common questions we are asked about in relation to modern hand tufted and shaggy rugs.
These include tufted saxifrage Saxifraga cespitosa, drooping saxifrage S. cernua and Highland saxifrage S. rivularis.
It has broader leaflets (to increase photosynthesis in shady conditions) than the tufted vetch.
Alpine and oblong woodsia are small tufted montane ferns found in open rocky habitats, mainly on cliffs and scree slopes.
It is the northernmost home of the opossum, grey fox, fox squirrel, cardinal bird, Carolina wren, tufted tit, gnat catcher, summer tanager and yellow-breasted chat.
Squirrels of this and the' other arboreal groups have the bodily form slender and agile, the tail long and bushy, the ears well developed, pointed and often tufted; the feet adapted for 1 ' climbing, the anterior pair with four toes and a rudimentary thumb, and the posterior pair with five toes, all the toes having long, curved and short-pointed claws (see Squirrel).
In wetter areas, tufted hair-grass, ragged robin and meadow sweet are common.
It has broader leaflets (to increase photosynthesis in shady conditions) than the Tufted vetch.
There are dozens of tufted duck spread out along the quieter section of the river upstream from the lake.
The demand for tufted carpets has grown to the extent that they now account for over 90% of global carpet sales.
And skylarks break from their hides in the tufted grass, as if drawn up on shining threads, their wings splashed with gold.
Meadow The meadow area supports a range of grass species such as the delicate quaking grass, tufted hair grass and sweet vernal grass.
The paws are heavily tufted and provide the Maine Coon with built-in "snowshoes."
Tufted feet give the cat an appearance of having snowshoes and help him easily walk through drifts of snow.Many of the original Maine Coon cats from New England have multiple toes; this is known as polydactalism.
The paws are heavily tufted and provide the Maine Coon with built-in "snowshoes".
The leather can either be tufted with buttons or left smooth.
This 62-inch-long love seat from Hearth Song shines in stylish lime green or magenta and features a soft velour texture and tufted seat and back.
This can result in a soft, tufted design or the leather can be stretched over a frame for a more tailored look.
The foam or batting filler is dense and the fabric is deeply tufted with pipe or corded trimming.
Cushion Pink (Silene Acaulis) - A dwarf alpine herb tufted into light green masses like a wide-spreading Moss, but quite firm.
E. Roylei, a Himalayan plant, is another good alpine, of very dwarf, tufted growth, having large blossoms of a bluish-purple with yellow eye.
One foot high, tufted, and spreading, the thin, wiry stems each carry two pairs of leaves on pedicels an inch long, and a terminal leaflet, all deeply notched.
Tufted Hairbell (Wahlenbergia) - A charming group of alpine plants allied to the Hairbells, and mostly inhabiting the mountains of Dalmatia and Asia Minor.
Wall Hairbell (Campanula Portenschlagiana) - A dense tufted evergreen kind, with small bright green leaves, so dense as to obscure the foot-stalks, 1 inch or more in length, by which they are supported.
Habit, close and tufted; 6 inches high; affording in June and July a wealth of glowing purple, pendent, bell-shaped flowers that impel admiration.
The most notable are S. humilis, of neat tufted habit, 1 1/2 feet high, flowers white, fragrant, succeeded by blue-black fruits.
Hoteia - H. japonica is a fine tufted herbaceous plant 1 foot to 16 inches high, with silvery-white flowers early in summer in a panicled cluster.
The flowers, as large as a shilling and of a bright yellow, are on short stalks rising very little above the tufted foliage, in April and May, and the contrast between them and the dark glossy foliage is effective.
Division. P. humile is a neat tufted plant for the rock garden, where it can get a dry sheltered position in winter and plenty of water in summer.
J. humilis is a creeping tufted plant, about 6 inches high, bearing small heads of pretty blue flowers in July and August.
The plant is of tufted habit, the flowers reminding one of those of a Soldanella, but large, with cut edges to the segments, like a frill, and pure white, passing to rose as they get older.
Europe, of dwarf tufted growth, with large heads of lemon-yellow blossoms.