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   Tus·sock

   /ˈtəsək/

   

   noun

   • 1. a small area of grass that is thicker or longer than the grass growing around it.
   • 2. a woodland moth whose adults and brightly colored caterpillars both bear tufts of irritant hairs. The caterpillars can be a pest of trees, damaging fruit and stripping leaves.

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps an alteration of dialect tusk ‘tuft’, of unknown origin.

   Derivatives

   • 1. tussocky adjective

   Scrabble Points: 13

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