Tussock
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtʌs.ək/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tussock is a noun meaning A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
Meaning
A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
More Meanings
- Tussock grass.
Example Sentences
I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.
An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- tussocks
- tussac
- tussack
Synonyms for tussock
Depending on context, synonyms include tuft.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tuft, grassland, tussuck, thussock, tuffet, hassock.
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