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tussac

tussac is the obsolete form of tussock.

Meaning of tussock

Noun

tussock (plural tussocks)

  1. A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.
    • An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC
  2. Tussock grass.
    • I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.1985, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 401

Forms of tussac

pluraltussacs

Phrases with tussac

Questions about tussac

What is tussac the obsolete form of?
Tussac is the obsolete form of tussock.

Words near tussac in the dictionary

  1. Tuson
  2. tusovka
  3. tusovkas
  4. tusovki
  5. tuss
  6. tussac
  7. tussac grass
  8. tussac grasses
  9. tussack
  10. tussacks
  11. tussacky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tussac (page history and authors); tussock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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