Tuft vs Floccose - What's the difference?

As a noun tuft

is a bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc, held together at the base.

is to provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

(botany|mycology) covered or growing in wooly tufts.

(en noun)

A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.

A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.

A small clump of trees or bushes.

(historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.

(historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.

* T. Hughes

Several young tufts , and others of the faster men.

*tufthunting *tufthunter

(en verb)

To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

(Thomson)

To form into tufts.

To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts.

To be formed into tufts.

(en adjective)

(botany, mycology) Covered or growing in wooly tufts.

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