tussocky
[ tuhs-uh-kee ]
Origin of tussocky
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How to use tussocky in a sentence
Far away the coast reached out, and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink to a level with the beach.
Sons and Lovers | David Herbert LawrenceHere and there on very steep hillsides, wiry, tussocky grass might be growing instead of forest or peat.
The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott ElliotThe white grass was tussocky and long, and the trail here and there had been churned into quagmire.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands | Harold BindlossFrom the sea to the Sierra Nevada stretch the pampas, all tussocky grass, thorn, guanacos and mirages.
Through the Heart of Patagonia | H. Hesketh PrichardAt the very bottom, almost on a level with the tussocky surface of the marsh, a barrel lay on its side, its depth leading inward.
Dorothy Dixon and the Mystery Plane | Dorothy Wayne
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