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Meaning of "tussock"
tussock (noun): A small clump of grass or vegetation, typically found in marshy or damp areas. Tussocks can provide habitat and nesting sites for certain wildlife species
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- A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
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This species prefers open tussock habitat.
Tussock dominates the vascular plants.
Sophronellus is thought to occur in short tussock grasslands.
The tussock moved to the place of the stump.
Turn over every stone and tussock.
Due to the dense tussock it is very resistant to heath fires.
The island is covered in tussock grass.
Chrysopeda prefers open tussock clearings in mountainous forest habitat.
Five eggs are laid in a nest in a tussock.
This species prefers short tussock grassland habitat in coastal areas.
It is likely to have occurred in scrubland and tussock grass.
European tussock moth.
The nest is in a bush or reed tussock.
Antique tussock moth.
Its lined cup nest is built low in a shrub or tussock.
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The vegetation is predominantly tussock sedge and reedmace.
Tussock grasses such as Chrysopogon zeylanicus and Cymbopogon confertiflorus are found in the wet hollows.
Extracting something nutritious from tussock is not easy.
Rusty tussock moth.
The habitat of this species is dry tussock grasslands.
Milkweed tussock caterpillar.
The habitat consists of alpine and subalpine tussock grasslands.
Chiefly of tussock grassland.
The habitat of this species consists of alpine tussock grasslands.
Declarata prefers open tussock habitat amongst beech forest in mountainous terrain.
Higher up it is covered by tussock grasses.
It passes through the tussock country above the tree line of Flagstaff Hill.
The pines outcompete native trees and tussock land.
Calliteara is a genus of tussock moths in the Erebidae family.
Colonies of albatross carve rivers through the thick tussock grass.
Acyphas is a genus of tussock moths in the Erebidae family.
There are no formal thresholds established for the whitemarked tussock moth.
In wet areas of the tundra there is tussock grasses and cotton grasses.
Carex aquatilis is a species of sedge known as water sedge and leafy tussock sedge.
It may roost in a depression near grass tussock and it will bathe in puddles.
The first European settlement was at Karioi where sheep were grazed on open tussock land.
Patterned ground and permafrost phenomena such as tussock and heath tundra are well represented.
The fight goes well for Peter until Miraz slips on a tussock.
Enjoy the sheltered forest valleys and rocky tussock slopes of this alpine park.
Tussock grasslands include Festuca abyssinica and Carex runssoroensis.
Favoured habitat was sandy desert with spinifex and other tussock grasses.
Apyre is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family.
Forest fires destroyed much of the original forest cover which was succeeded by tussock grassland.
Fertilization enhanced tiller production within parental tussocks but did not affect daughter tussock formation.
Rusty tussock moth caterpillar on a green-scaled willow.
Hypidota is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family.
Chandra 's are right here amongst the driftwood and tussock.
Amastus is a genus of arctiine tussock moths in the Erebidae family.
Tussock tundra is also common, especially in western areas of the island.
Zatrephes fallax is an arctiine tussock moth of the family Erebidae.
