Tussock

Definitions

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

Equivalents

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.”

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