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n. A clump or tuft, as of growing grass.

n. A tuft of hair or feathers.

n. A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.

n. A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge.

n. Same as Tussock grass, below.

n. A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

n. A clump, tuft, or small hillock of growing grass.

n. Same as tuft, 1.

n. A tussock-moth, as of the genus Orgyia (which see); a vaporer: so called from the tufted larvæ.

n. Same as tussock-grass.

n. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

"The houses are thatched with a reed-like grass called tussock, which is grown in the gardens or on a piece of ground near."

clump    cluster    bunch    clustering   

tussock caterpillar    orgyia   

hexenbesen    staghead    witches' broom    witch broom    coma    wisp   

tussocker    tussocky    tussocked   

tuf   

cutworm    roamer    manuka    night-flying    Savannah    forest-land    grasslike    hummock    swale    scarabæus