Meanings of tiny tufts in English

The ocean's waves were tiny tufts of white on an expanse of gray-blue.

Here and there on it grew isolated tiny tufts of the hardy upland flowers.

Its walls were sombre and rough like the rocks, but with tiny tufts of green moss and lichens over them.

Her head-body is dominated by two huge eyes facing forwards for perfect binocular vision, beneath a pair of tiny tufts that crown her like horns.