brush-wood

Eleven broad vegetation patterns have been described: temperate coniferous forest, warm coniferous forest, temperate broad-leaved and coniferous mixed forest, deciduous and broad-leaved forest, evergreen broad-leaved and deciduous mixed forest, evergreen broad-leaved forest, bamboo forest, deciduous broad-leaved shrub forest, evergreen broad-leaved shrub forest, brush-wood and meadow steppe.

Mount Wuyi, China 2008

There were children paddling in the shallows and girls carrying brush-wood bundles on their heads.

Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful Dalrymple, William 2008

A Gothic gate, richly ornamented with fret-work, which opened into the main body of the edifice, but which was now obstructed with brush-wood, remained entire.

The Romance of the Forest 2004

It was traversed by broad avenues, in many places half grown up with brush-wood, where the beauties of former days used to take their stand to see the stag coursed with greyhounds, or to gain an aim at him with the crossbow.

Waverley 2004

In one of the side pens, immediately under the roof, there was a large heap of leaves, the outside portion of which was at present damp, for the rain had beaten in upon it, but which had been as dry as tinder when collected; and there was a row or ridge of mixed brush-wood and leaves so constructed as to form a line from the grass outside on to the heap.

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil 2004

Out upon the moor, where he was now, no shelter of any kind encouraged him; no mantlet of bank, or ridge, or brush-wood, set up a furry shiver betwixt him and the tatterdemalion wind.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

The men then dismounted, and, having assisted Emily, led the mules towards the woods, that skirted the glen, on the left, over broken ground, frequently interrupted with brush-wood and wild plants, which she was often obliged to make a circuit to avoid.

The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

Making good use of this experience, he stole his way down the steep glen-side, behind the low fence of the garden, until he reached the bottom, and the brush-wood by the stream.

Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

And then on a wattle of brush-wood I saw the form of a man — the

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

It happened once when the poor man was going into the forest to fetch brush-wood, that he saw a bird which was quite golden and more beautiful than any he had ever chanced to meet with.

Household Tales 2003