tussocked

Tennyson recalled what he first saw at Mablethorpe, on the Lincolnshire coast: 'all the rest of his long life he could remember the feel of the wind catching him as he stood on the high, tussocked bank that protected the level land behind him from the sea'.

The caribou move through the tussocked landscape effortlessly, their tendons making odd clacking sounds, mocking the humans who plod behind.