Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A clump or tuft, as of growing grass.
- n. A tuft of hair or feathers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A clump, tuft, or small hillock of growing grass.
- n. Same as tuft, 1.
- n. A tussock-moth, as of the genus Orgyia (which see); a vaporer: so called from the tufted larvæ. The larva of the white-marked tussock, O. leucostigma, is a very destructive caterpillar in the United States. The pale tussock is the European O. pudibunda: so called in England.
- n. Same as tussock-grass.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.
- n. (Bot.) Same as Tussock grass, below.
- n. (Zoöl.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also
tussock caterpillar . See Orgyia.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
Etymologies
- Unknown. Possibly related to tusk, or Scottish Gaelic dosag ("little tuft"). (Wiktionary)
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The houses are thatched with a reed-like grass called tussock, which is grown in the gardens or on a piece of ground near.”
“I think one of the plants that makes the hummocks might be this plant called tussock sedge carex stricta.”
“Ireland, is mimicked in a wonderful manner by one of the Liparidae (the family to which our common "tussock" and "vapourer" moths belong).”
“He stops counting, calls out her location and vanishes into the swaying tussock grass.”
“The red flags continue uphill through the tussock where the raucous braying gets louder.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
“Hundreds of Rockhopper Penguins and Black-browed Albatrosses sit on rocks and tussock clumps, wheezing, clucking, and whistling.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
“He tells us follow to the red flags through the tussock grass clumps because there might be nesting penguins beneath.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
“Directly in front of me a caracara bird chases a screaming penguin who scurries into a little hole beneath the tussock, safe.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: Traveling to the Falkland Islands: Sub-Antarctica
“If you have trouble walking, the trip won't be much fun because to get past the seals and to the penguin rookeries, you usually have to walk uphill through tough clumps of tussock grass.”
The Huffington Post: Margie Goldsmith: What You Need to Know About Antarctica
“Running the length of the clifftop, following its every in and out, is a border of bright pink thrift just a single tussock wide.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tussock’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Words without the letter E
chord, slur, anabaptist, anabolic, diabolic, turbid, torpid, somniloquist, trump, bipolar, dioxin, hydrocarbon and 107 more...
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End in -ock
Inspired by fbharjo (see spitchcock).
spitchcock, hillock, willock, peacock, pajock, penock, yapock, sycock, bittock, bawcock, burrock, cammock and 168 more...
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Grasses
Grasses, and words about grasses.
Prairie grasses names are found in this list.
Names of medical marijuana strains can be found elsewhere.cheatgrass, downy brome, chess, brome, bronco-grass, Sudan grass, ryegrass, cocksfoot, tussock, pampas, fescue, perennial and 323 more...
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It's a Lepidopteran
Names of butterflies and moths that I find interesting, and terms associated with citizens of Lepidoptera.
Here are elfins, satyrs and wood-nymphs ruled by some sovereign such as an em...clearwing, whitespot, miller, underwing, lettuce-shark, owlet, gamma, fanfoot, mason moth, mought, goldtail, noctuid and 132 more...
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
thundersnow, phantasmagoria, mercurial, chimerical, taciturn, paraclete, lapis lazuli, flay, guttersnipe, wonky, misanthrope, kestrel and 583 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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words found to be generally pleasing
alabaster, mahogany, camphor, coalesce, spire, portmanteau, gadabout, palaver, dolor, dour, dun, luminesce and 610 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Bring up the bodies
Words found in Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
tussock, wisp, bolster, teeter-totter, pate, carp, sieve, sift
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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