Word Finder - tufts

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A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

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A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

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A small clump of trees or bushes.

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A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

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A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

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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.

Reichardi, a minute stemless plant, has small heart-shaped leaves in rosette-like tufts, and white flowers striped with pink, produced successively.

Beautiful dwarf spring-blooming rock plants, forming carpety tufts of flowers of simple cruciferous form.

C. alpinus, 6 in., grows in dense tufts, and bears sulphur-yellow flowers in May.

The plants also look well isolated, in large tufts in borders or as an edging.

The Candytuft, of which several dwarf spreading subshrubby species are amongst the best of rock plants, clothing the surface with tufts of green shoots, and flowering in masses during May and June.

The somewhat glaucous leaves form dense tufts at the ends of the branches, and are 4 or 5 in.

The beautiful Monterey pine, P. insignis, distinguished by the brilliant colour of its foliage, has the leaves in tufts of three or four; the lower cone-scales have recurved points.

The Rhexias must not be divided much, and healthy tufts should be obtained from their native localities and planted in a sandy peat bed.

T. minus forms compact slightly glaucous symmetrical tufts, 12 to 18 inches high.

In gardens, on peaty soil and fine sandy loams, it spreads out into compact tufts covered with cream-colored and yellow flowers.

They form neat dressy tufts of blue, purple-pink, and white flowers.

Among the parks are Broadway Park, Central Hill Park, Prospect Hill Park, Lincoln Park, and Nathan Tufts Park.

Fogg; and the Tufts Library (1879, in Weymouth village), endowed by Quincy Tufts and his sister Susan Tufts.

Itura, for example, belonging to the former, has protrusible scent-emitting processes at the end of the abdomen; and Thyridia has scent-producing tufts of hair on the edge of the posterior-wing.

Solenia, Cyphella - and even simpler cases are met with in Mortierella, where the zygospore is invested by the overgrowth of a dense mat of closely branching hyphae, and in Gymnoascus, where a loose mat of similarly barren hyphae covers in the tufts of asci as they develop.

Plasmopara, &c. In Cystopus (Albugo) the "conidia" are abstricted in basipetal chain-like series from the ends of hyphae which come to the surface in tufts and break through the epidermis as white pustules.

It has a fleshy rootstock, creeping beneath the surface of the soil and sending up luxuriant tufts of narrow, swordshaped leaves, from 4 to 8 ft.

The filaments arising from the carpogonia grow into long thin tubes, which fuse with special cells rich in protoplasm contents; and from these points issue isolated tufts of sporogenous filaments, several of which may form the product of one fertilized female cell.

In the Gigartinales, the filaments which arise from the auxiliary cell may spread and give rise to isolated tufts of sporogenous filaments, as in the Cryptonemiales.

The first signs of this fungus is the appearance of small white tufts of mycelium bursting through the skin of the tuber, the spores of the fungus being carried at the tips of the threads forming these tufts.

Until comparatively recent times the surrounding district was in a state of nature with merely a thin coating of turf interspersed with tufts of heath and dwarf thistles, but bare of trees and shrubs and altogether devoid of the works of man, with the exception of a series of prehistoric barrows of the Bronze Age which, singly and in groups, studded the landscape.

His grand-nephew, Hosea Ballou (1796-1861), born in Halifax, Vermont, on the 18th of October 1796, preached _to Universalists in Stafford, Connecticut (1815-1821); and in Massachusetts, in Roxbury (1821-1838) and in Medford (1838-1853); and in 1853 was elected first president of Tufts College at Medford, serving in that office until shortly before his death, which took place at Somerville, Massachusetts, on the 27th of May 1861.

He was the first (1847) to urge the necessity of a Universalist denominational college, and this did much towards the establishment of Tufts.

Isolated tufts or tussocks are also characteristic of steppe - and savanna - vegetation and open places generally in the warmer parts of the earth.

The largest species of the genus is Poa flabellata which forms great tufts 6-7 ft.

Grasses also characterize steppes and savannas, where they form scattered tufts.

Long and short shoots occur also in Cedrus and Larix, but in these genera the spurs are longer and stouter, and are not shed with the leaves; this kind of short shoot, by accelerated apical growth, often passes into the condition of a long shoot on which the leaves are scattered and separated by comparatively long internodes, instead of being crowded into tufts such as are borne on the ends of the spurs.

These tufts or groups likewise display an orderly and definite grouping in different mammals, which suggests the origin of such groups from the existence in primitive mammals of a scaly coat comparable to that of reptiles, and indeed directly inherited therefrom.

Special tufts of stout stiff hairs, sometimes termed vibrissae, and connected with nerves, and in certain cases with glands, occur in various regions.

It contains two tufts of peculiar excretory cells, described by Goodrich (5) as " solenocytes," which surround the blind ends of a pair of nephridia.

Over the upper surface was stretched a white-dressed reindeer skin, and at the corners (so to speak) hung a variety of charms - tufts of wool, bones, teeth, claws, &c. The area was divided into several spaces, often into three, one for the celestial gods, one for the terrestrial and one for man.

The plumage, which clothes the whole body, generally consists of small scale-like feathers, many of them consisting only of a simple shaft without the development of barbs; but several of the species have the head decorated with long cirrhous tufts, and in some the tail-quills, which are very numerous, are also long.'

Cladiscothallus, from the Culm of Russia, in which the filaments are united to form hemispherical or globular tufts, has been compared by Renault to a Chaetophora.

Fertile pinnule, bearing several tufts of microsporangia, magnified.

The sporangia were large pyriform sacs, shortly stalked, and borne in tufts on the branches of the fertile rachis, which developed no lamina.

On the fertile rachis the sporangia were borne in tufts, much as in the preceding genus; they were still larger, reaching 2.5 mm.

It's an iridescent purple-black sunbird, which apparently shows two tiny tufts of orange feathers under the wings.

At almost any time of the year the red squirrel has ear tufts, not present in the gray.

As the mass grows it forms compact tufts that are collectively called a mycelium.

Their heads are gray to black with white tufts of fur on their ears.

Red. green and black wool yarn tufts are caught between the stitches on the deck, stem and stern.

This Fungus stimulates the main twig to shoot out more twigs than usual; the mycelium then enters each incipient twig and stimulates it to a repetition of the process, and so in the course of years large broom-like tufts result, often markedly different from the normal.

The " tussock grass " is a wonderful and most valuable natural production, which, owing to the introduction of stock, has become extinct in the two main islands, but still flourishes elsewhere in the group. It is a reed-like grass, which grows in dense tufts from 6 to 10 ft.

The lunatic's solemn, gloomy face was thin and yellow, with its beard growing in uneven tufts.

It 's an iridescent purple-black sunbird, which apparently shows two tiny tufts of orange feathers under the wings.

Despite the rain the cock pheasant is still looking at his best, with red wattles almost covering his head and prominent ear tufts.

The platform itself also showed signs of many years of disuse, with tufts of grass growing from cracks.

They look like small tufts of cotton wool leave a waxy mark on the leaf.

Frieze is great for areas with lots of traffic (hallways, living rooms, etc) and the tufts appears twisted.

Sculptured combines looped and non-looped tufts in more than one shade.