tussocks

The alluvial soils and river gravels were once covered in short tussocks maintained by Polynesian burning, but now support numerous orchards and vineyards.

Richmond temperate forests 2008

The moundlike stepping-stones you use to work your way across a meadow are called tussocks.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The moundlike stepping-stones you use to work your way across a meadow are called tussocks.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

The moundlike stepping-stones you use to work your way across a meadow are called tussocks.

The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989

Not a sod had ever been turned there since the creation of the world, and the whole country wore the peculiar yellow tinge caught from the tall waving tussocks, which is the prevailing feature of New Zealand scenery _au naturel_.

Station Amusements 1871

The root-clumps, or "tussocks" of the grass -- whence its name -- were two or three feet in width, and grew into a mound about a foot high, the spaces intervening between, which the penguins utilised for their nests, averaging about eighteen inches apart, as if the grass had been almost planted in mathematical order.

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

The caterpillars, adorned and probably protected by their 'tussocks' of black or coloured bristles, feed vigorously.

The Life-Story of Insects 1902

"tussocks" from a neighboring bog, which may in time decay.

Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings 1867

They stop a few feet short and seeing I have nothing edible for them, bury their heads in the tussocks again.

Country Diary: Sandy, Bedfordshire 2011

As I went down through the tawny heather tussocks on St George's Day, the morning sun shone from a cloudless sky.

Country Diary: North Derbyshire 2011