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Meanings of tussock in English

Portuguese
topete

A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass.

topete
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Examples for "tuft"
Examples for "tuft"
1
Strategies to support tuft cells might be developed for treatment of CD.
Pubmed
2
And I ran to tear away the tuft, when the grass replied:
The Pearl Box / Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for You...
3
A white tuft of smoke showed against the grey of the sky.
Greatheart
4
But not a tuft of hair or glancing horn hove in sight.
Camp and Trail: A Story of the Maine Woods
5
You need a haircut, she says lightly, yanking a wayward blond tuft.
Those who save us
Usage of tussock in English
1
Suddenly, in a tussock of marram, his nose and he stopped dead.
The Way of the Wild
2
Wallaby eating habits threaten native bush, forests, farm pastures and tussock highlands.
Radio NZ
3
Leslie said the tussock was burning quickly in the strong North west wind.
Radio NZ
4
He refers to the penguins, kelp-weed and tussock grass; certainly three characteristic features.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
5
One was quite wild, jumping over the wall into the tussock-garden.
Three Years in Tristan da Cunha
6
There was Mrs. Woodcock peeping at him from behind a tussock of grass.
The Burgess Bird Book for Children
7
That tussock of grass, each coarse strand haloed by the sunlight: his own!
The secret river
8
Where once had been beautiful tussock it was black and horrible.
Radio NZ
9
Through bog and tussock it took the party four hours to accomplish this journey.
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
10
They were sitting close to each other on a tussock behind their little tent.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
11
Hurrying forward again, Sam tripped, catching his foot in some old root or tussock.
The two towers
12
With her amber eyes fixed on a matted tussock, she sprang into the air.
The Guardian
13
Miraz was down-notstruck by Peter, but face downward, having tripped on a tussock.
Prince Caspian
14
The spider was swiftly crawling up the bank, where it quickly disappeared beneath a tussock.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes
15
Still the same monotonous plains, the same interminable tussock, dotted with the same cabbage- trees.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
16
The flax and the cabbage-tree and the tussock-grass are the great botanical features of the country.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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Translations for tussock
Portuguese
topete
Tussock through the time
Tussock across language varieties
United Kingdom
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