| 词汇 | tussock |
| 释义 | tussock noun[ C ] uk /ˈtʌs.ək/ us /ˈtʌs.ək/ a thick mass of grass or other plants growing together: He stumbled over a tussock of grass and hurt his ankle. The hills are covered with heather, blueberry, gorse, bramble, creeping willow, and grass tussocks. As kids, he and his buddy Billy explored every inch of the area, getting to know every bush and tussock. The light of the setting sun illuminated the tussocks of last year's grass that covered the rolling plateau. She began to run down the hill, jumping from tussock to tussock. Groups and collections of things age bracket agglomerate agglomeration Aladdin's cave anthology array basket crop empty set ensemble family feast glory box package portfolio selection sheaf sheaves starter pack store cupboard Examples of tussocktussock Their progress - carrying heavy packs through the tussock grass and over the soft, rainsoaked terrain - was painfully slow. She always stands fixed on some tussock in the wet swamp, as on a rock in the sea. By 1995, the juvenile plants had developed into adult even-sized tussocks, producing abundant seed. In 2005 there were only 0.1 burrows per m2 and the tussock grassland had disappeared. Other than a tussock grassland, the communities studied were not directly influenced by manuring. The island lacks trees or shrubs and the vegetation consists of tussock grassland and low herbland with some bare areas with patchy mosses. They rarely moved higher than 6 in. from the ground and were not observed to penetrate into a thick tussock, but remained on its outside or below it. The major edge effect in perennial tussock grassland, such as the one at the study site, is in-growth into the quadrats of tussocks at the margin. In fact, the area covered by tussock grasslands has declined most since the cats were eradicated and there are other indications of a decline in the numbers of burrowing birds. The grass steadily grows more rank, and, in the boggy patches where the drainage system seems to have failed, tussocks and rushes have completely ousted the smooth sward. On the hill there is much rough country, and lambs and ewes can get behind tussocks of grass for protection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is low-lying and covered in grass and tussock, including the sedges which give it its name. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. He is interested in the outdoor environment, particularly high country tussock and watershed areas. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The grass pramo extends from approximately 3500-4100 m, and is composed of mostly tussock-grasses and bunch-grasses. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is placed 0.4 to 4 m up in a dense shrub, grass tussock or pine. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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