The houses are thatched with a reed-like grass called tussock, which is grown in the gardens or on a piece of ground near. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
I think one of the plants that makes the hummocks might be this plant called tussock sedge carex stricta. From Wordnik.com. [swamp adventures] Reference
Ireland, is mimicked in a wonderful manner by one of the Liparidae (the family to which our common "tussock" and "vapourer" moths belong). From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
A hill studded with tussock grasses rolled down to the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
One was quite wild, jumping over the wall into the tussock-garden. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
"Why, that was all on account of the space the tussock-grass took up.". From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
They saw her eat, sitting very straight and noble upon a tussock of bents. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Nine hundred bundles of tussock were used to thatch the one side of the house. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
It is to be a wooden one made out of our packing-cases and thatched with tussock. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Hurrying forward again, Sam tripped, catching his foot in some old root or tussock. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
The vertical distribution of live vascular phytomass in cottongrass tussock tundra. From Wordnik.com. [General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference
Cocoons of tussock-moth and tiger-moth under bark, logs, and rubbish in early autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
Graham had a plank covered with tussock grass for a pillow and did not get much sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
An investigation showed the can to be partly filled with caterpillars of the tussock moth. From Wordnik.com. [More Toasts] Reference
But they often lay away in the tussock where it is almost a hopeless task to find the eggs. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Justin tucked a blade of tussock grass between his lips, the very picture of indolent ease. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
The snake turned, froze for the blink of an eye, then uncurled into a tussock of dead grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Empress File]
Response of Eriophorum vaginatum to elevated CO2 and temperature in the Alaskan tussock tundra. From Wordnik.com. [General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels] Reference
Only the coastal fringes of South Georgia support vegetation, mainly in the form of tussock grass. From Wordnik.com. [South Georgia] Reference
There are a number of tussock moths, sawflies, beetles, etc., which feed on the leaves of nut trees. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917] Reference
Then he knocked over a hare -- a fat giant of its race -- that stared at him brazenly from a tussock. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
He stooped and drew out of a tussock, into which some heavy foot had trampled it, a short jagged blade. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
All around was a blackberry thicket, and a great tussock of brown sedges sheltered the nest like a roof. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
On the other side the meads had become rolling downs of withered grass amidst a land of fen and tussock. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
Its tussock habit favors its usefulness as its root system appears to be reasonably restricted in range. From Wordnik.com. [2 Case Studies] Reference
NEST -- Of grass and reeds, placed on the ground in a tussock of grass, where there is a growth of briers. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
As outdoor work, look for the egg masses on trees and fences and devise means of combating the tussock-moth. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
I am sorry to say one of them purposely set fire to the tussock grass, which has been burning for three days. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
“Olympus, it's grown a bit since I found it!” he marveled, as the monstrous tussock towered alongside him. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
There was no sand and they lay at night under the overturned boat on a pebbly beach softened by layers of tussock grass. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
An even sod takes the place of the isolated tussock, and the grass from being wild and unsavoury becomes sweet and tender. From Wordnik.com. [Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864] Reference
In the Philippines, the larvae of an unidentified tussock moth have been reported attacking the flowers of C. calothyrsus. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
There being no such thing as a scythe here, it was cut with a short hook made out of ship iron, and called a "tussock-hook.". From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The second night they slept inside the cave, which they cleaned out, and having dried the tussock in the sun had softer beds. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Safe on the second tussock from the shore, Jellico halted, edged carefully around and used the needler Nymani had left with him. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
'Come right along the skyline, away from the long barrow towards the tumuli – the tussock of grass on the right at the base of it. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
As it was raging two of the men, Sam Swain and Bob Green, were passing our house and noticed some tussock had been blown off the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
No sooner had he uttered the words than he was scrambling down by the tussock-grass through the waterfall gully; while, at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
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