Crossword-Solution: TUSSOCK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tussock | n. | A tuft, as of grass, twigs, hair, or the like; especially, a dense tuft or bunch of grass or sedge. |
| Tussock | n. | Same as Tussock grass, below. |
| Tussock | n. | A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “TUSSOCK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dense lump of grass | 1 answer |
| Thick clump of grass, twigs, etc. | 1 answer |
| Thick clump of grass. | 1 answer |
| Tuft of growing grass | 1 answer |
| small hillock of grassy, or grass-like plant growth | 1 answer |
| UK Scots (anag) – clump of grass | 1 answer |
| Tuft of grass | 2 answers |
| Grassy clump | 2 answers |
| A BUNCH OF HAIR OR FEATHERS OR GROWING GRASS | 10 answers |
| A COMAL TUFT | 10 answers |
| CLUMP of grass | 11 answers |
| DENSE CLUMP OF GRASS | 11 answers |
| Hillock | 18 answers |
| High Land | 46 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEAMCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TUSSOCK (5)
Some two hours before sunset they came upon a place where a byway joined the high road, and on the ingle stood a chapel of stone (whether of the heathen or Christian men Ralph wotted not, for it was uncouth of fashion), and by the door of the said chapel, on a tussock of grass, sat a knight all-armed save the head, and beside him a squire held his war-horse, and five other men-at-arms stood anigh bearing halberds and axes of strange fashion.
Flax and tussock and fern, Gum and mulga and sand, Reef and palm -- but my fancies turn Ever away from land; Strange wild cities in ancient state, Range and river and tree, Snow and ice.
But still, through the gate of the Slap, the sun shot a last arrow, which sped far and straight across the surface of the moss, here and there touching and shining on a tussock, and lighted at length on the gravestone and the small figure awaiting him there.
But nearer than two hundred yards it was impossible to get; even to raise my head or find a tussock whereon to rest the rifle would have started any deer but this one.
More than once, however, they came on families by the wayside, who were too weak from hunger and disease to fly, so that they could but sit like hares on a tussock, with panting chests and terror in their eyes.
Quotes with TUSSOCK (1)
The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventu…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1959–2016).