underbrush
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Etymology
Noun
underbrush (usually uncountable, plural underbrushes)
- The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
- 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
- How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!
Synonyms
Translations
small trees
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Verb
underbrush (third-person singular simple present underbrushes, present participle underbrushing, simple past and past participle underbrushed)
- (transitive) To clear (an area) of underbrush.
- (intransitive) To work among the underbrush.
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