Tussock

/ˈtʌs.ək/

Synonyms for "tussock" (24 found)

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Closest matches (5)

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Related words (12)

Noun(2 words)
tussock habitattussock vegetation

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

8 entries
bunchclumpclusterclusteringecosystemhabitat typetuftvegetation patch

More specific

4 entries
grass tussocksedge tussocktussock grasslandtussock meadow

Collocations

6 entries
dense tussockgrass tussocktussock formationtussock grasstussock patchtussock tundra

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

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

Source: wiktionary

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