tussac

They were smaller than wrens, ‘frail’ in appearance, possessed an obvious yellow eye-stripe, and moved rapidly up and down tussac stems.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Two-meter high tussock grassland, dominated by Spartina arundinacea and tussac grass Parodiochloa flabellata is restricted to areas where salt spray is regular, and it is found on offshore stacks, sea cliffs and adjacent slopes.

Gough Island Wildlife Reserve, United Kingdom 2008

Tussuc is highly sensitive to grazing by large herbivores (introduced cattle all but eradicated it on the larger islands) and, worldwide, tussac species only occur where native herbivorous mammals are rare or absent.

Archive 2006-05-01 Darren Naish 2006

Clumps of Australian cedars rose on the sloping banks, which were also covered with the high grass called “tussac” in New Holland; but the cocoanut, so abundant in the archipelagoes of the Pacific, seemed to be wanting in the island, the latitude, doubtless, being too low.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Clumps of Australian cedars rose on the sloping banks, which were also covered with the high grass called “tussac” in New Holland; but the cocoanut, so abundant in the archipelagoes of the Pacific, seemed to be wanting in the island, the latitude, doubtless, being too low.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Turning to those on the shore, it is now seen that numbers of them are constantly passing in among the tussac-grass and out again, their mode of progression being also very odd.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

There is none on the islet -- not a stick, as no trees grow there; while the tussac and other plants are soaking wet, the very ground being a sodden spongy peat.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

And, so saying, he strolls off among the bunches of tussac-grass, and is soon out of sight.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

It is treeless, though in part overgrown with a rank vegetation, chiefly tussac-grass [Note 2], with its grand bunches of leaves, six feet in height, surrounded by plume-like flower-spikes, almost as much higher.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

"It is likely they have their nests yonder," observed Mrs Gancy, pointing to where the penguins kept going in and out of the tussac.

The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850