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tussock grass

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tussock grass
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Austral and NZ any of several pasture grasses of the genus Poa
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tussock grass
n → Rispengras nt
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Rabbits are destroying the tall tussock grass that regulates the temperature of the nesting burrows and also provides critical cover from predators.
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As for the big open spaces, there's nothing I like more than a coastal walk on a sunny, windy summer's day watching dolphins cruising around in the kelp, seals lazing in the tussock grass, penguins going busily about their business and, if you're lucky, an albatross.
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It took us just over 20 minutes to drop down out of the high country to the edge of the snow line where patches of tussock grass became visible, protruding through the ice.
Steep slopes of Erebus: with over a foot of fresh fallen snow, it was ... by Markworth, Bob / Petersen's Bowhunting
 
 
 
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