Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Small trees, shrubs, or similar plants growing beneath the taller trees in a forest.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Shrubs and small trees growing under large trees in a wood or forest; brush; undergrowth.
- To work in the underbrush, as in cutting and clearing; clear away underbrush from.
Wiktionary
- n. The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Etymologies
- under- + brush (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Back early part of December, you've had House and Senate staff starting to meet Democratic staff, starting to thrash out what they call the underbrush -- sort of the easier parts of these Bills where most of the things were the same.”
“It knocked down so many trees that the underbrush is now so thick you can hardly get in the woods.”
“Is religion just an extension of the valid suspicion that any rustling in the underbrush could be a beast coming to eat you?”
Jeff Dorchen: Study Proves Other People Are Even Worse Than We Thought
“Lost in the underbrush is the reality that the architecture of FISA was shaped not only to protect the privacy of Americans but also to give the White House considerable latitude in pursuing time-urgent opportunities.”
“In order to preserve these forest-trees, the underbrush, which is liable to make a conflagration in a dry season, should be removed generally, and the view of the great features be left unimpeded.”
“In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary.”
“Careful studies of silt prove beyond doubt that its primal cause is the removal of the forest cover, such as underbrush, weeds, and grasses, along the streams, which allows the rainfall to run off rapidly.”
“This forest stretched for miles, overshadowing, as a kind of underbrush, many smaller trees and innumerable shrubs, some of which bore bright, conspicuous flowers.”
“A few seasons suffice for the total extirpation of the "underbrush," including the young trees on which alone the reproduction of the forest depends, and all the branches of those of larger growth which hang within reach of the cattle are stripped of their buds and leaves, and soon wither and fall off.”
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 03 (historical)
“Yes, this was the "underbrush" which the poetess had described: the gloom above and below, the light that seemed blown through it like the wind, the suggestion of hidden life beneath this tangled luxuriance, which she alone had penetrated, -- all this was here.”
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Brushes
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Words ending with sh
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Words I like
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Cellar Door
It's the way the letters combine to form an beautiful whole and the way its sound tickles the ear.
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Just 'cause I like 'em, U
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