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tussock

[tuhs-uhk] / ˈtʌs ək /


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Head west across the mudflats at the outflow of Loch Tarbert, and negotiate a patchwork of peat bog and tussock grass down to the coast, using intermittent deer tracks.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

These critters will disappear as the weather gets colder, as white hickory tussock moth caterpillars spend the winter in cocoons, according to the University of Wisconsin.

From Fox News • Nov. 1, 2018

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

At last they came to the end of the black mere, and they crossed it, perilously, crawling or hopping from one treacherous island tussock to another.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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