Search the Dictionary

ies, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.

A tuft or bunch, -- as the assemblage of branches forming the head of a tree; or a cluster of brachts when empty and terminating the inflorescence of a plant; or a tuft of long hairs on certain seeds. Coma Berenices ( Etym: [L.] (Astron.), a small constellation north of Virgo; -- called also Berenice's Hair.…

Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray.

To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

Having a cotyledon; tufted; as, the cotyledonary placenta of the cow.

A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.

A tuft, or other excrescence or natural ornament, growing on animal's head; the comb of a cock; the swelling on the head of a serpent; the lengthened feathers of the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

Bearing any elevated appendage like a crest, as an elevated line or ridge, or a tuft. Gray.

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

nishing part of; to complete; to consummate; to perfect. Amidst the grove that crowns yon tufted hill. Byron. One day shall crown the alliance. Shak. To crown the whole, came a proposition. Motley.

aving at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

An unidentified plant, probably the crowfoot. "The tufted crowtoe." Milton.

A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.

Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts of crystals.

Having external ears; having tufts of feathers resembling ears. Eared owl (Zoöl.), an owl having earlike tufts of feathers, as the long-eared owl, and short-eared owl. -- Eared seal (Zoöl.), any seal of the family Otariidæ, including the fur seals and hair seals. See Seal.

A plume or tuft of feathers worn as a part of a headdress, or anything imitating such an ornament; an aigrette.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.