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tussock grass

noun

  1. any of various grasses that grow in tuftlike clumps.


tussock grass

noun

  1. any of several pasture grasses of the genus Poa
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tussock grass1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

They sailed ahead and by three o’clock could make out the faint patches of green tussock grass that grew among the snowy rocks.

It revealed that prime night parrot habitat in Queensland consisted of areas of tussock grass called triodia that had been long untouched by fire, and close to water sources and seed-rich floodplains.

Head west across the mudflats at the outflow of Loch Tarbert, and negotiate a patchwork of peat bog and tussock grass down to the coast, using intermittent deer tracks.

The endemic Cobb’s wren hides in the towering tussock grass.

This they repeated later on several occasions, and, climbing the cliffs by the tussock grass, were able to kill or secure on the plateau a few of the wild pigs.

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