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TUSSOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass
Synonyms:
tuft; tussock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("tussock" is a kind of...):
bunch; clump; cluster; clustering (a grouping of a number of similar things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tussock"):
wisp (a small tuft or lock)
hexenbesen; staghead; witch broom; witches' broom (an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance)
coma ((botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds))
