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Meanings of tussock in English
Usage of tussock in English
1
Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.
2
Wallaby eating habits threaten native bush, forests, farm pastures and tussock highlands.
3
Leslie said the tussock was burning quickly in the strong North west wind.
4
He refers to the penguins, kelp-weed and tussock grass; certainly three characteristic features.
5
One was quite wild, jumping over the wall into the tussock-garden.
6
There was Mrs. Woodcock peeping at him from behind a tussock of grass.
7
That tussock of grass, each coarse strand haloed by the sunlight: his own!
8
Where once had been beautiful tussock it was black and horrible.
9
Through bog and tussock it took the party four hours to accomplish this journey.
10
They were sitting close to each other on a tussock behind their little tent.
11
Hurrying forward again, Sam tripped, catching his foot in some old root or tussock.
12
With her amber eyes fixed on a matted tussock, she sprang into the air.
13
Miraz was down-notstruck by Peter, but face downward, having tripped on a tussock.
14
The spider was swiftly crawling up the bank, where it quickly disappeared beneath a tussock.
15
Still the same monotonous plains, the same interminable tussock, dotted with the same cabbage- trees.
16
The flax and the cabbage-tree and the tussock-grass are the great botanical features of the country.
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United Kingdom
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