tussock
1
8.9
- noun
- /ˈtʌsək/
:
matorral
- Carson had a slug, then came up to where Maggie stood on a tussock of muddy alpine grass that seemed to have been chewed down by sheep.
- tussock grass
You're thrown out in the, in, you know, in the wild snow, tussock, Bush, rivers.
- You're thrown out in the, in, you know, in the wild snow, tussock, Bush, rivers.
Examples
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Meredydd sat cross-legged on a grassy tussock, meditating on the alchemy inherent in light.
Fiction book (1992) -
Tussocks of white grass protruded like hairy wens from fields of black slime and stagnant ponds.
Fiction book (1993) -
Walking from tussock to tussock is best done in daylight, and even then with great care.
Academic text (2002) -
I picked a tiny flower from the tussock and smelled it.
Fiction book (1999) -
In December 1990, for example, I found the remains of bird 50650/40095 in her burrow beneath the tussock grass.
Academic text (1995) -
The coastline is fringed with six-foot-high clumps of tussock grass.
Academic text (1995) -
The larger Antipodes Island parakeet, considered to be the original colonist, feeds mainly on tussock and sedge leaves.
Academic text (1995) -
Here grew lichens, mosses, now and then a tussock of grass or a clump of dwarf willows.
Fiction book (1992) -
Walking from tussock to tussock is best done in daylight, and even then with great care.
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I picked a tiny flower from the tussock and smelled it.
Synonyms
16
3.5
A small bunch of hair, feathers, or grass joined together at the base
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant that lives many years and grows in clumps with blue or white bell-shaped flowers
- Specialized
A dull colored moth whose caterpillars have tufts of hair and eat leaves of many trees
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tussock comes from an old Scottish word that meant 'tuft' or 'clump'. So a tussock is a small, thick 'clump' of grass or hair that stands out from its surroundings.