tussock

Example Sentences

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Head west across the mudflats at the outflow of Loch Tarbert, and negotiate a patchwork of peat bog and tussock grass down to the coast, using intermittent deer tracks.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

These critters will disappear as the weather gets colder, as white hickory tussock moth caterpillars spend the winter in cocoons, according to the University of Wisconsin.

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

On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien