tussock

Example Sentences

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The tahr’s significant weight and solid hooves are destroying precious snow tussock in sub-alpine regions.

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

The white hickory tussock moth caterpillar has been spotted in the central part of the state, according to KDKA.

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

They sailed ahead and by three o’clock could make out the faint patches of green tussock grass that grew among the snowy rocks.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong