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Tussock

//ˈtʌs.ək// noun

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

    "An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear."

  2. 2
    a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass wordnet
  3. 3
    Tussock grass.

    "I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock."

Etymology

Uncertain. Likely from or related to tusk + -ock (diminutive suffix). Compare Middle High German zūsach (“thicket”), a derivative of Middle High German zūse (“lock of hair”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dosag (“little tuft”).

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