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Meanings of tuft in English

Portuguese
topete

A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.

topete
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Examples for "tussock"
Examples for "tussock"
1
Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.
The Way of the Wild
2
Wallaby eating habits threaten native bush, forests, farm pastures and tussock highlands.
Radio NZ
3
Leslie said the tussock was burning quickly in the strong North west wind.
Radio NZ
4
He refers to the penguins, kelp-weed and tussock grass; certainly three characteristic features.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
5
One was quite wild, jumping over the wall into the tussock-garden.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
Usage of tuft in English
1
Strategies to support tuft cells might be developed for treatment of CD.
Pubmed
2
And I ran to tear away the tuft, when the grass replied:
The Pearl Box / Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for You...
3
A white tuft of smoke showed against the grey of the sky.
Greatheart
4
But not a tuft of hair or glancing horn hove in sight.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
5
You need a haircut, she says lightly, yanking a wayward blond tuft.
Those who save us
6
A string bound it round the rooted portion of a grass tuft.
The Forfeit
7
Undine sat absently smoothing the tuft of glossy cock's-feathers in her hat.
The Custom of the Country
8
The parroquets are entirely green, except a red tuft on their head.
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and No...
9
The beautiful little drake was picked out of a tuft of alfa-grass.
Sister Teresa
10
The bunch was only a little tuft of twigs growing out together.
Mary Erskine
11
The naked tail, with its tuft at the end, strengthens this similarity.
The Hunters' Feast: Conversations Around the Camp Fire
12
A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
Storm Front
13
Known here as querrequerre, the bird has a powder-blue tuft and nape.
Reuters
14
And yet she is only different by a tuft of white feathers.
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Gr...
15
Each tuft of upland grass is musked like a bouquet with perfume.
Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
16
At the cat's back haunches was only a frayed tuft of fur.
Rogues
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Translations for tuft
Portuguese
topete
Tuft through the time
Tuft across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common