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Underbrush

//ˈʌndɚˌbɹʌʃ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest. uncountable, usually

    "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!"

  2. 2
    the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To clear (an area) of underbrush. transitive
  2. 2
    To work among the underbrush. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From under- + brush.

Etymology 2

From under- + brush.

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