tussock

noun

1. A tuft or clump of green grass or similar verdure, forming a small hillock.

   “An Indian grazing ground is all rocks and scrub and tussocks and little ravines, among which the herds scatter and disappear.”

   “Next morning I was off to Lochtully, which, as you know, is in the north of Perthshire. It stands three miles from the station, a great gray pinnacled house, with two towers cocking out above the fir woods, like a hare’s ears from a tussock of grass.”

   “One Kashmiri morning in the early spring of 1915, my grandfather Aadam Aziz hit his nose against a frost-hardened tussock of earth while attempting to pray.”

2. Tussock grass.

   “I yearned, painfully, for […] a sight and touch of a hillside covered with golden tussock.”