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Tussock meaning
A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock. | Tussock grass.
Synonyms of Tussock
Example sentences (6)
After previously “nuking” the weed with poison, Mr Royds has been spreading the common farming fertiliser to destroy the tussock, without the surrounding natural grasses dying off.
Australia was looking into biocontrol agents for Chilean needle grass and nassella tussock and agents in the native range of Argentina.
Tussock moths are members of the tiger moth family.
Invasive grasses such as serrated tussock () and molasses grass (Melinis minutiflora) are of great concern to conservationists, as they typically thrive after fire and readily outcompete native species.
In the opening pages of Midnight's Children, Dr Aziz while bending down on his prayer mat, bumps his nose on a hard tussock of earth.
The penguins mostly colonise the coastal tussock and grasslands of Heard Island, and have previously been recorded as occupying the flats and gullies on McDonald Island.