a small area of grass that is thicker or longer than the grass growing around it (比周围草高的)草丛,草簇
(亦作tussock moth)a woodland moth whose adults and brightly coloured caterpillars both bear tufts of irritant hairs. The caterpillars can be a pest of trees, damaging fruit and stripping leaves 毒蛾
Family Lymantriidae: many genera 毒蛾科:多属
派生 tussocky adjective 语源
mid 16th cent.: perhaps an alteration of dialect tusk 'tuft', of unknown origin