tussock

Example Sentences

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The creature — not to be confused with the white-marked tussock moth — has sharp barbs that stick to skin and typically result in a rash or irritation.

From Fox News • Nov. 1, 2018

The hilly outcrop covered in golden tussock and native trees boasts uninterrupted views, across sometime placid waters, of New Zealand’s snow-capped Southern Alps.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2017

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