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 The following is a glossary of common English language terms used in the description of birds—warm-blooded vertebrates of the class Aves and the only living dinosaurs, characterized by , the ability to in all but the approximately 60 extant ...

Ungual tuft In mammals, ungual tufts are tufts of hairs at the base of claws of the forefeet and hindfeet. Their presence has been used as a character in cladistic studies of the Cricetidae, a large family of rodents.Weksler, 2006, p. 19 Rice rats Membe ...

s, groups of hairs at the base of an animal's claws ** Toe tuft, on cats *

Ear tuft Ear tufts are a collection of fur or feathers found on animals which can resemble an animal's ear or is near the animal's ear. Cats Ear tufts are not found on all cat breeds. The ear tufts are located on the tips of cat ears and are also known ...

, fur or feathers around an animal's ear *

Enamel tufts Enamel tufts are hypomineralized ribbon-like structures that run longitudinally to the tooth axis and extend from the dentinoenamel junction (DEJ) one fifth to a third into the enamel. They are called ‘‘tufts’’ due to their wavy look wit ...

, in teeth * Tuft cell, in the intestines *Sulphur tuft, or ''

Hypholoma fasciculare ''Hypholoma fasciculare'', commonly known as the sulphur tuft or clustered woodlover, is a common woodland mushroom, often in evidence when hardly any other mushrooms are to be found. This saprotrophic small gill fungus grows prolifically in la ...

'', a mushroom *Sheathed woodtuft, or ''

Kuehneromyces mutabilis ''Kuehneromyces mutabilis'' (synonym: ''Pholiota mutabilis''), commonly known as the sheathed woodtuft, is an edible mushroom that grows in clumps on tree stumps or other dead wood. A few other species have been described in the genus ''Kuehnero ...

'', a mushroom

Other uses

* Tufting in textiles *

Tuft (aeronautics) In aeronautics, tufts are strips of yarn or string, typically around , attached to an aircraft surface in a grid pattern and imaged during flight. The motion of the tufts during flight can be observed and recorded, to locate flow features such ...

, a strip of string attached to an aircraft *Tuft, a decorative tassel on a hat *

Tufting (composites) In the field of composite materials, tufting is an experimental technology to locally reinforce continuous fibre-reinforced plastics along the z-direction, with the objective of enhancing the shear and delamination resistance of the structure. It ...

in the field of advanced composite materials *

Tuft (surname) Tuft is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Arne Tuft (1911-1989), Norwegian cross country skier *Gabbi Tuft or Tyler Reks (born 1978), American professional wrestler * Svein Tuft (born 1977), bicycle racer See also *Toft (disambigu ...