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TUFTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination
Example:
tufted loosestrife
Synonyms:
crested; topknotted; tufted
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Domain category:
animal; animate being; beast; brute; creature; fauna (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or adorned with tufts
Example:
a tufted bedspread
Classified under:
Similar:
adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts
Synonyms:
caespitose; cespitose; tufted
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ungregarious ((of plants) growing together in groups that are not close together)
Domain category:
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Context examples:
On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
