TUFTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tufted mean? 

• TUFTED (adjective)
  The adjective TUFTED has 3 senses:

1. (of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts

2. having or adorned with tufts

3. (of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

  Familiarity information: TUFTED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUFTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of plants) growing in small dense clumps or tufts

Synonyms:

caespitose; cespitose; tufted

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having or adorned with tufts

Context example:

a tufted bedspread

Similar:

adorned; decorated (provided with something intended to increase its beauty or distinction)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(of a bird or animal) having a usually ornamental tuft or process on the head; often used in combination

Synonyms:

crested; topknotted; tufted

Context example:

tufted loosestrife

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)

 Context examples 

We picked up the track and followed it onward for some distance, but soon the moor rose into a long, heather-tufted curve, and we left the watercourse behind us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The smith never moved, but his mouth set grim and hard, while his tufted brows came down over his keen, grey eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I saw a great yellow face, coarse-grained and greasy, with heavy, double-chin, and two sullen, menacing grey eyes which glared at me from under tufted and sandy brows.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyebrows were tufted and overhanging, which gave those naturally cold eyes an almost ferocious aspect, an impression which was increased by his strong and furrowed brow.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strongly-marked horizontal eyebrows must be traced under that brow; then followed, naturally, a well-defined nose, with a straight ridge and full nostrils; then a flexible-looking mouth, by no means narrow; then a firm chin, with a decided cleft down the middle of it: of course, some black whiskers were wanted, and some jetty hair, tufted on the temples, and waved above the forehead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The scent of the spice islands was in his nostrils as he had known it on warm, breathless nights at sea, or he beat up against the southeast trades through long tropic days, sinking palm-tufted coral islets in the turquoise sea behind and lifting palm-tufted coral islets in the turquoise sea ahead.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A fierce bull-dog face was framed in a tangle of hair and beard, and two bold, dark eyes gleamed behind the cover of thick, tufted, overhung eyebrows.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inspector Baynes visited us at Baker Street with a printed description of the dark face of the secretary, and of the masterful features, the magnetic black eyes, and the tufted brows of his master.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had the short body, the big shoulders, the round chest, no neck, a great ruddy frill of a beard, the tufted eyebrows, the 'What do you want, damn you!' look about the eyes, and the whole catalogue.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a gaunt, aquiline face which was turned towards us, with piercing dark eyes, which lurked in deep hollows under overhung and tufted brows.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)