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Tussock

A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

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Bunch 76% connected

A protuberance; a hunch; a knob or lump; a hump.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Cluster 76% connected

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

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Clustering 76% connected

of Cluster

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Coma 76% connected

A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.

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Wisp 76% connected

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

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Tuft 92% connected

A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Bedded adjective · 78% connection

deposited or arranged in horizontal layers; "stratified rock"

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Bias adjective · 78% connection

slanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric; "a bias fold"

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Convenience noun · 78% connection

the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"

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Frame noun · 78% connection

a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror; "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the fr…

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Framing noun · 78% connection

a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror; "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the fr…

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Population noun · 78% connection

(statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population"

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lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; "a random choice"; "bombs fell at random"; "random…

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Bermuda grass unknown · 78% connection

A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now w…

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Brush noun · 78% connection

A tuft of hair on the mandibles.

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Bunch grass unknown · 78% connection

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are…

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Cowlick noun · 78% connection

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

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Crinite adjective · 78% connection

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train.

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Darnel noun · 78% connection

Any grass of the genus Lolium, esp. the Lolium temulentum (bearded darnel), the grains of which have been reputed poisonous. Other spe…

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Dense adjective · 78% connection

Having the constituent parts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque…

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Fascicled adjective · 78% connection

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicl…

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Feather noun · 78% connection

A tuft of peculiar, long, frizzly hair on a horse.

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Fetlock noun · 78% connection

The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals.…

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Floccus noun · 78% connection

The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.

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Foretop noun · 78% connection

The hair on the forepart of the head; esp., a tuft or lock of hair which hangs over the forehead, as of a horse.

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Foxtail noun · 78% connection

The name of several kinds of grass having a soft dense head of flowers, mostly the species of Alopecurus and Setaria.

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Frizette noun · 78% connection

A curl of hair or silk; a pad of frizzed hair or silk worn by women under the hair to stuff it out.

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Gama grass unknown · 78% connection

A species of grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) tall, stout, and exceedingly productive; cultivated in the West Indies, Mexico, and the Sou…

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Grass tree unknown · 78% connection

An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the…

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Guereza noun · 78% connection

A beautiful Abyssinian monkey (Colobus guereza), having the body black, with a fringe of long, silky, white hair along the sides, and…

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Hairy adjective · 78% connection

Bearing or covered with hair; made of or resembling hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; rough with hair; hirsute.

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