tussicular

[ Lat.tu icularis, from tu is =a cough.] Of or pertaining to a cough. gen it. tu ilagin (is): Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -eœ .] tus-si-la-gin-e-æ, s. pl . [Mod. Lat. tu ilago , Bot .: A tribe of Tubuliflore. Leaves alternate, all radial, broad; outer flowers female, very slender, and tubular or ligulate; florets of the disk tubular, usually, bisexual; anther cells not tailed; arms of the style connate, pubescent, with bifid, conical tips. ( Sir J. Hooker .) tus-si-lā-gō, s. [Lat.=coltsfoot (see def.), from tu is =acough, from the use of the plant as a cough medicine.] Bot.: Coltsfoot; the typical genus of Tu ilaginese (q. v.). Heads yellow, solitary, many-flowered; receptacle naked; involucre of a single row of equal, linear scales; florets of the ray long, narrow, in many rows, female; those of the disk few, male, both yellow; pappus pilose; achenes terete. Closely akin to Pet a sites, but differs by the pistillate flowers having a (sometimes minute) ligule. Only one known species, Tu ilago farfara . [COLTSFOOT.] *tus-sis, s . [Lat.] Pathol.: A cough, a catarrh. tus'-sle, *tus'-sel, *tus-tle, s. [TuSSLE, v.] A struggle; a contest; a scuffle. "Does he wear his head? Because the last we saw here had a ta le." Byron: Vision of Judgment, xviii. tu ock-gra , s. tutiorist Bot., .: Dactyl is cæspitosa (= Festuca flabel lat a ), a gra forming tufts five to six feet high in the Falkland Islands, Tierra del Fuego, the Straits of Magellan, Cape Horn, . It was first discovered by Commers on in the Straits of Magellan in 1767. Its appropriate habitat is the seashore, where it will grow even on sand dunes. Either as green fodder or as hay, it is said to be unrivaled as food for cattle, horses, . Pigs and other animals grub up the sweet roots, which they eat eagerly.