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Definition: Tussock |
TussockNoun1. A bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tussock" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Note: Tussock \Tus"sock\, noun. [From Tuz.]. (references) |
Synonym: TussockSynonym: tuft (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Tussock |
| English words defined with "tussock": family Lymantriidae ♦ Liparian, Lymantriidae ♦ Thussock, Tussac grass, tussock caterpillar, tussock moth, Tussuck. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Tussock Moth damageForestryShoshone Field OfficeUSRDUpper Snake River District. Credit: Unknown. |
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| "Tussock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tussock" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "tussock": plumed tussock ♦ tussock bellflower ♦ tussock caterpillar ♦ tussock grass ♦ tussock moth. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "tussock": tussock-forming, tussock-free. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
moth tussock | 6 |
tussock | 5 |
moths tussock | 3 |
serrated tussock | 3 |
marked moth tussock white | 2 |
caterpillar moth pale tussock | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tussock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tufë (batch, beam, book, bunch, cloud, clutch, Covey, crop, drove, flight, flock, funiculus, group, herd, mass, muster, parcel, plume, ream, roll, run, scads, slip, stack, swarm, troop, truss, tuft, wad), bar me gjemba. (various references) | |
Arabic | كتلة من عشب نامي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | стиска (pinch, wisp), туфа (agglomerate, tuft). (various references) | |
Czech | chomáè trávy. (various references) | |
Danish | tuegræs (tussock grass), spinder (man-made fibre maker, spinner, tussock moth), lille penselspinder (antique tussock moth, European tussock moth, rusty tussock moth, vapourer moth), løgrapgræs (bulbous bluegrass, bulbous meadow grass, sweet tussock), boegenonne (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), almindelig høgeurt (tussock hawkweed, US common hawkweed). (various references) | |
Dutch | witvlakvlinder (antique tussock moth, European tussock moth, rusty tussock moth, vapourer moth), roodstaartrups (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), roodstaartje (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth, redstart), roodstaart (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), meriansborstelrups (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), meriansborstel (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), knolbeemdgras (bulbous bluegrass, bulbous meadow grass, sweet tussock), gewoon havikskruid (tussock hawkweed, US common hawkweed), borstelrupsvlinder (hop dog, pale tussock moth, red tail moth), boendergras (tussock grass). (various references) | |
Finnish | mätäs (hummock). (various references) | |
French | touffe d'herbe (tuffet), colline. (various references) | |
German | Büschel (bunch, bundle, clump, cluster, crest, fascicle, handful, sheaf, tuft, tufts, tussocks). (various references) | |
Greek | σωρόσ χόρτου (hay stack, hayrick), φούντα (tuft), δεσμίδα (bundle, fascicle, ream). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szövőlepke (tussock-moth), hajcsomó (mop of hair, plume, toupee, tuft), fûcsomó, fűcsomó (hassock, tuft), erdei sédbúza (tussock-grass). (various references) | |
Italian | ciuffo d'erba. (various references) | |
Manx | tom, doss (bouquet, bun, bunch, clump, clumsy, drone, mop of hair). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ussocktay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tufo (flock, tussock moth, wisp), moita (brush, clump, scrub, tod, tussock moth), madeixa (hank, tussock moth). (various references) | |
Russian | трава, растущая пучком, кочка (hillock, hummock), кистехвост (tussock moth). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pramen (coma, lock, patch, tress, wisp), čuperak (cowlick, forelock, shag, shock, topknot, tuft, wisp). (various references) | |
Spanish | montecillo de hierba. (various references) | |
Swedish | tuva (tuft). (various references) | |
Turkish | sağ demeti, ot öbeği, çimen topağı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | щучник, трава, що росте пучком, купина (hillock). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Cifuna locuples, Dasychira locuples confusa, Dasychira pudibunda, Euproctis pseudoconospersa, Hieracium Iachenalii Gmel., Hieracium vulgatum Fries, Nygmia conspersa, Olene pudibunda, Orgyia antiqua, Orgyia pseudotsugata, Poa bulbosa L.. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tussock": tussocks, tussocky. (additional references) | |
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"Tussock" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Buzzcock, Dossick, Fuzzack, trussock, t'stock, tusoc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tussock" (pronounced 'Tus"sock'): Bassock, Cassock, hassock. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-k-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: custos, scouts, stocks. | |
-2 letters: costs, cusks, cusso, kusso, ousts, scots, scout, scuts, socks, souks, stock, stuck, sucks, tucks, tusks. | |
-3 letters: coss, cost, cots, cusk, cuss, cuts, koss, oust, outs, scot, scut, sock, sots, souk, sous, suck, toss, tsks, tuck, tusk. | |
-4 letters: cos, cot, cut, kos, out, sos, sot, sou, tsk, uts. | |
-5 letters: os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-k-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: sickouts, tussocks, tussocky. | |
+2 letters: buckshots, cockshuts, gunstocks, outslicks, stickouts, tuckshops. | |
+3 letters: buttstocks, superstock. | |
+4 letters: goatsuckers, knockwursts, soundtracks, stuccoworks, superstocks. | |
+5 letters: blockbusters, countersinks, leukocytoses, leukocytosis, shuttlecocks. | |
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