tussock

[ UK /tˈʌsək/ ]
NOUN
  1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
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How To Use tussock In A Sentence

  • Instead, he indulges his weed-mindfulness, enjoying the sight of "cow parsley and primrose in the spring" and "the fat tussocks of yarrow and plantain" in the summer. Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
  • Principle communities include tussock grasslands of Stipa spp. and xerophytic cushion grasses of Poa spp. interspersed with bushes of Schinus magellanicus and Condalia microphilia, among other species. Península Valdés, Argentina
  • The red flags continue uphill through the tussock where the raucous braying gets louder. Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
  • I breathed deep, taking in the scent of pollen blown from the wild grass, and carried in vaporous clouds over the larger tussocks, past a grazing antelope and onwards over the rolling hillocks as far as we could see.
  • A large part of the study area was a bed of Carex tussocks, in which C. appropinquata was the dominant species.
  • The high pastureland was lush with grass, sere and tussocky now after the summer's heat, and it sort of rolled, building itself up in a series of slow waves into the foothills of the Sierras.
  • DoC says the dunes have significant conservation value and are home to a rare sand tussock, katipo spiders and the Notoreas Wellington moth. Radio New Zealand News Headlines
  • Among the vegetation in the northern sector of the marsh lie tall herbs including meadow-sweet, wild angelica and figwort, while strands of yellow iris, greater tussock sedge and alder carr can also be seen.
  • She tripped on a tangle of brambles and fell forward onto a tussock of dead grass. GRACE
  • Covell’s Moths of Eastern North America describes this as being very similar to the banded tussock moth (H. tessellaris)but with a bluish green middorsal stripe on the thorax (shows ncely in your photo). Anniversary Moth - The Panda's Thumb
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