0 a number of short pieces of hair, grass, etc. that grow closely together or are held together near the base: --
1 a number of short pieces of something, such as hair or grass, that grow close together or are held together at the base: --
Proceeding on the assumption that elongation of the tuft occurs primarily by fibres sliding past one another, rather than by the fibres deforming elastically, they adopt a viscous constitutive relation.
Thorax densely clothed; the hairs arranged in loose tufts.
In the morning they climbed the tallfloweringshoots to dry their wings and then descended to the tufts to feed.
To do this very light tufts were attached to the surface.
We also assume the gel to be incompressible, which is clearly not true for textile fibre tufts.
In some parts of the habitat the tufts were contiguous and in others were about two feet apart.
In cases when a tuft of collaterals was present, with multiple branchings, "multiple" collaterals were described.
The surstyli are lateral and basal to the cerci, and also bear a tuft of long setae (fig. 5a-c).
