tussock grass

noun

: a grass or sedge that typically grows in tussocks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web

Two days later, on January 25, Buma finds his tree: a snarl of branches poking through clumpy tussock grass. —Craig Welch, National Geographic, 7 July 2020

After the station closed in 1966, the reindeer grazed unmolested, devastating the island’s native plants, including the tussock grasses in which seabirds nest. —Lucy Jakub, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined above