Tuft

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Tuft or tufts or tufted can refer to:

Biology

  • Tufted grass, grasses growing in tussocks
  • Fascicle (botany), or tuft, a bundle of leaves or flowers growing closely together
  • specific tufts of feathers on a bird, for example a pectoral tuft
  • Ungual tufts, groups of hairs at the base of an animal's claws
    • Toe tuft, on cats
  • Ear tuft, fur or feathers around an animal's ear
  • Enamel tufts, in teeth
  • Tuft cell, in the intestines
  • Sulphur tuft, or Hypholoma fasciculare, a mushroom
  • Sheathed woodtuft, or Kuehneromyces mutabilis, a mushroom

Other uses

  • Tufting in textiles
  • Tuft (aeronautics), a strip of string attached to an aircraft
  • Tuft, a decorative tassel on a hat
  • Tufting (composites) in the field of advanced composite materials
  • Tuft (surname)

See also

  • Toft (disambiguation)
  • Tofte (disambiguation)
  • Tufts (disambiguation)
  • Tuff, a type of rock
  • Fascicle (disambiguation)
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