tufts

His hair was standing out all over him in tufts where her teeth had mauled.

The Bondage 2010

Stems are erect, slender, rising in tufts from a short root-stock, glabrous, leafy towards the base, varying in length from 2 to 3 feet.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

His beard grew in tufts; his face was in one wrinkle; his voice was hoarse with rage.

The Miracles of Antichrist: A Novel 1915

His hair was standing out all over him in tufts where her teeth had mauled.

The Bondage 1906

I saw masses of wild clematis scrambling everywhere, so that the hedge looked as if somebody had been dressing it up in tufts of feathers.

Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden 1886

And as to "tufts" -- that vile distinction which independent M. P.s are so indignant at -- why, if a dissenting nobleman -- even the seventh son of an Irish peer -- were to be had for love or money, what a price he would fetch in such an Utopia of nonconformity!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

But it is not quite right to call the tufts yellow: they are green, thickly powdered with the minute golden florets.

A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

The leaves of the ash are light and pendulous, and cut into numerous leaflets; those of the oak are deeply indented, and generally grow in tufts.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

The usual accompaniment of the chalk -- small "tufts" of foliage, that become spinneys when close at hand, dot the surface of the great plateau.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

Thus in Egyptinkorpi mosses in Nurmi and Pjeli parishes in Finland pinewoods are found growing over layers or "tufts" of frozen sand, but also, in other places in Eastern Finland, we find layers containing stumps, roots,

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866