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Meaning of Tussock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈtʌs.ək

Definitions

  1. A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
  2. Tussock grass.

Equivalents

العربية حزمة الأعشاب
Bosanski pol
Deutsch Grasbüschel
Suomi mätäs tupas
Français tussack
Gaeilge tom tortóg
Galego toutizo touza
Hrvatski pol
Magyar zsombék
Íslenska þúfa
Kurdî pol
Te Reo Māori Wīwī
Nederlands graspol pol
Polski kępa
Русский ко́чка
Српски pol

Examples

“An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.”
“Next morning I was off to Lochtully, which, as you know, is in the north of Perthshire. It stands three miles from the station, a great gray pinnacled house, with two towers cocking out above the fir woods, like a hare’s ears from a tussock of grass.”
“I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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