TUSSOCK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tussock mean? 

• TUSSOCK (noun)
  The noun TUSSOCK has 1 sense:

1. a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

  Familiarity information: TUSSOCK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUSSOCK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

tuft; tussock

Hypernyms ("tussock" is a kind of...):

bunch; clump; cluster; clustering (a grouping of a number of similar things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tussock"):

wisp (a small tuft or lock)

hexenbesen; staghead; witch broom; witches' broom (an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance)

coma ((botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds))

 Context examples 

I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a mist, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

More than once, however, they came on families by the wayside, who were too weak from hunger and disease to fly, so that they could but sit like hares on a tussock, with panting chests and terror in their eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, with a snap and a thud, one axle would come to the ground, whilst a wheel reeled off amidst the tussocks of heather, and roars of delight greeted the owners as they looked ruefully at the ruin.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw my hesitation, and spoke:—The logic is simple, no madman's logic this time, jumping from tussock to tussock in a misty bog.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was no need, however, for him to move, for the twain came swiftly towards them until they were within a spear's length, when the man with the cross sat himself down sullenly upon a tussock of grass by the wayside, while the other stood beside him with his great cudgel still hanging over his head.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)