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tussock

[ UK /tˈʌsək/ ]
NOUN
  1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

How To Use tussock In A Sentence

  • I got quite used to tiny black Tussock birds pecking matter-of-factly at my shoes.
  • In addition to the fir trees there are rowan, macrocarpa, eucalyptus and larch, and some native plants such as hard fern, matagouri, tussock, manuka, coprosma, and dracophyllum (the grass tree).
  • If a bird needs to eat the flies which thrive on uncut grass tussocks, then regular cutting of the grass for silage is going to be a problem.
  • On the McDonald Islands, tussock grass Poa cookii is common on eastern slopes and lower parts of the plateau, while cushions of Azorella selago cover higher areas, with Kerguelen cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica, and dwarf shrub Acaena magellanica. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
  • They were to live at the Bluff homestead, a cob house built in 1860 of clay and chopped tussock.
  • The garden bar seating will be extended and landscaped with stone work features, a barbeque area and coloured tussocks.
  • Larks that live in desert areas will stand in the shade of grass tussocks during the hottest parts of the day.
  • Another idea was mid-field 'beetle banks': unsprayed tussocks ripe for insect habitation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Short tussock grass Poa cookii, with cushions of the herb Colobanthus kerguelensis are present in coastal areas, with Kerguelen cabbage Pringlea antiscorbutica and Azorella selago cushions in established moraines and valleys up to 200 m. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
  • The insect population of a single large tussock has been estimated at more than 1,000 individuals.
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