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What is the difference between tuft and pinnate?

tuft | pinnate |

As a noun tuft

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

As a verb tuft

is to provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.

As a adjective pinnate is

resembling a feather.

tuft

English

Noun

(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.

    Derived terms

    *tufthunting *tufthunter

    Verb

    (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.

    • pinnate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling a feather.
  • (botany) Having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis
    • Mimosa is a tree with pinnate leaves.
    The trunk is unbranched, often much shortened, and bears a crown of feathery or pinnate fronds.
  • (zoology) Having a winglike tuft of long feathers on each side of the neck.
    • the pinnate grouse, or prairie chicken

    Synonyms

    * pinnated

    See also

    * pinnately * palmate

    Derived terms

    {{der3, abruptly-pinnate , bipinnate , even-pinnate , imparipinnate , multipinnate , odd-pinnate , paripinnate , pluripinnate , tripinnate , tripinnated}} ----