Etymology
Origin of tussocky
Example Sentences
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She has planted meadows, willows, hedgerows, tussocky grasses and late-flowering crops to give insects food through the summer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
They stood together on a wide, flat stretch of tussocky grasses, heads lowered to the ground, and against the horizon they looked like parts of the landscape, like geological deposits.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2021
Coarse, tussocky grass had overgrown the coastal strip, and those ruins that poked through it looked more like neglected archaeological sites than places of continuing pain and despair.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 24, 2017
The brown tussocky land shows through layers of hard frost, and herons flap from frozen pools.
From Time ● May 16, 2012
But this hindered them; for the grass was thick and tussocky, and the ground uneven, and the trees began to draw together into thickets.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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