tufts

plural of tuft
as in hills
a rounded natural geographic elevation a cottage set on a tuft of land

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Recent Examples of tufts Wispy tufts of hair on the top of their heads give them kind of a punk look, and their fur is the color of Brie. Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025 They’re marked by tufts of hair. Maurice H. Decker, Outdoor Life, 17 Sep. 2025 From its opening moments, the game’s world is vibrant, with tufts of grass flowing in the foreground while fires rage far into the distance. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025 Whitefish salad prickling with chile and festooned with great tufts of cilantro. Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 Unlike most cirrus clouds, however, fibratus clouds do not have tufts or hooks at the end, and the strands are clearly separate from one another. Noel Kirkpatrick, Treehugger, 7 Aug. 2025 The terrain is a mix of rocky crags, steep mountains, and Hudson River farmland, most of which is shrouded in tufts of hardwoods that turn it on each fall. Graham Averill, Outside Online, 12 Sep. 2023
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Noun
  • Flip invented the Wheezer Scale for gauging the difficulty of hiking up hills.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The incident on Saturday morning began when Oakland police were called about person who had broken into a home on the 11000 block of Ettrick Street, in a hills neighborhood near the Oakland Zoo.
    Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • A lot of the smaller towns, like Huntington, have beautiful views of the mountains and leaves but lack the infrastructure to deal with the influx of people.
    Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The New York Times reported on Mangione's travels through Asia, including in Thailand and the mountains of Japan in the spring on 2024.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Some shells are soft, and others are hard with spikes or mounds.
    Kate Siber, Outside, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Archaeologists furthermore explained that, in this region, specifically, the burial mounds tend to harken back to pre-Roman traditions, which might suggest a meeting between Celtic and Roman cultures.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Oct. 2025

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