tussock

Example Sentences

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The creature — not to be confused with the white-marked tussock moth — has sharp barbs that stick to skin and typically result in a rash or irritation.

From Fox News • Nov. 1, 2018

The hilly outcrop covered in golden tussock and native trees boasts uninterrupted views, across sometime placid waters, of New Zealand’s snow-capped Southern Alps.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017

The endemic Cobb’s wren hides in the towering tussock grass.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2016

They said the word may have come from a colloquial name for a type of tussock known as makura, or pukio in te reo in the Maori language.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2015

On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien