tussock grass

American  

noun

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

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tussock grass British  

noun

1. any of several pasture grasses of the genus Poa

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Etymology

Origin of tussock grass

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times • Jan. 4, 2022

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.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2016

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

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Here and there I found a few phanerogams, some pale-coloured mosses, and especially tussock grass in such abundance that numerous herds of cattle might be fed upon the island.

From An Antarctic Mystery by Hoey, Frances Cashel