tuckamore
TUK-ah-more
Newfoundland term for wind-dwarfed groves of spruce and fir, shoulder-height or lower, impossibly dense and tangled. Can grow for centuries without ever reaching above your chin. Related to krummholz and elfinwood, but nastier to walk through — a scrum of fairy-tale hags, all hunches and claws.
Etymology
Newfoundland English, origin uncertain. Possibly from a dialectal alteration of an older word for stunted growth.
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