Tussock definition

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A clump or tuft, as of growing grass.
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A thick tuft or clump of grass, sedge, twigs, etc.
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A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
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Noun

Singular:
tussock
Plural:
tussocks

Origin of tussock

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Unknown. Possibly related to tusk, or Scottish Gaelic dosag (“little tuft").

    From Wiktionary

Tussock Sentence Examples

  • The nest, under a tussock of grass or a stone, is constructed of short dry straws, and usually lined with hair.

  • West of the dividing crest they are forest clad; east thereof their stony grimness is but slightly softened by growths of scrub and tussock grass.

  • The " tussock grass " is a wonderful and most valuable natural production, which, owing to the introduction of stock, has become extinct in the two main islands, but still flourishes elsewhere in the group. It is a reed-like grass, which grows in dense tufts from 6 to 10 ft.

  • Mountain tops are either rocky, bare or carpeted with tussock grass, above a belt of dense shady Holm Oak forest.

  • Tall tussock grassland provides the tallest vegetation cover on the island, there being no trees or tall shrubs.

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