NOUN | group | tussock, tuft | a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass |
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Meaning | A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass. | |
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Synonym | tuft | |
Narrower | coma | (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds) |
wisp | A small tuft or lock | |
witches' broom, witch broom, hexenbesen, staghead | An abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | |
Broader | bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | A grouping of a number of similar things |
Spanish | mechón, tussok |
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