An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.
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Tussock
//ˈtʌs.ək//
Synonyms for "tussock" (23 found)
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21 translations across 15 languages.
Basque
1 entries- belar-sasi noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Bulgarian
1 entries- туфа noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Dutch
2 entries- graspol noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- pol noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Finnish
2 entries- mätäs noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- tupas noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
French
1 entries- tussack noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Galician
2 entries- toutizo noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- touza noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
German
1 entries- Grasbüschel noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Hungarian
1 entries- zsombék noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Icelandic
1 entries- þúfa noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Ingrian
2 entries- könkörä noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- mätäs noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Irish
2 entries- tom noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- tortóg noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Māori
2 entries- wi noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
- wīwī noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Polish
1 entries- kępa noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Russian
1 entries- ко́чка noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Woiwurrung
1 entries- bowat noun (tuft or clump of grass or verdure)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
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.
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I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.
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