Tuft

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)