tussocks in English
noun
1
a small area of grass that is thicker or longer than the grass growing around it.
Between the tussocks of grass grew purple heather and tufted bog cotton, which were used in the old days for pillows and mattresses.
2
a woodland moth whose adults and brightly colored caterpillars both bear tufts of irritant hairs. The caterpillars can be a pest of trees, damaging fruit and stripping leaves.
noun
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1. Mature tussocks sometimes resulted in aggregation of tussocks.
2. Due to the presence of discontinuous permafrost over the Chang Tang, the soil is boggy and covered with tussocks of grass, thus resembling the Siberian tundra.