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/ˈtʌs.ək/ · noun
A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock..
An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
Next morning I was off to Lochtully, which, as you know, is in the north of Perthshire. It stands three miles from the station, a great gray pinnacled house, with two towers cocking out above the fir woods, like a hare’s ears from a tussock of grass.
One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam Aziz hit his nose against a frost-hardened tussock of earth while attempting to pray.
I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.
Use tussock when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tussock means A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock..
Common synonyms include tuft.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
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