tussuck

English

Noun

tussuck (plural tussucks)

1. Archaic form of tussock.
   • 1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis. Or A Catalogue & Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and Preserved at Gresham Colledge. […], London: […] W. Rawlins, for the author, →OCLC:

     The Fruit is remarkable for the ſeveral Tussucks or Bunches of Thorns wherewith it is armed all round about : each Bunch consisting of about fix or eight Thorns

References

“tussuck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.