tussocky
[tuhs-uh-kee]
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adjective
Origin of tussocky
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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 LoversDavid Herbert Lawrence
To the left is a narrow little ditch, and beyond the ditch rough and tussocky grass.
The Golf Courses of the British IslesBernard Darwin
Just behind a tussocky bunch of grass is a favourite spot to set a noose; the grass partially conceals it.
The Gamekeeper at HomeRichard Jefferies
Sometimes a brace of leverets are found in a tussocky grass clump, but these are more often allowed to remain than taken.
The Confessions of a PoacherAnonymous
The path was a narrow groove in the turf between high, sere, tussocky grass; it was scarcely more than a rabbit run.
The RainbowD. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence