Underbrush
['ʌndəbrʌʃ] or ['ʌndɚbrʌʃ]
Definition
(noun.) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest.
Inputed by Boris--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.
Typist: Shirley
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Undergrowth, underwood.
Typed by Clarissa
Definition
n. brushwood or shrubs in a forest growing beneath large trees: undergrowth.—v.t. to clear away such—also Un′derbush.—vs.i. Un′derbrush Un′derbush to work amongst underbrush.
Typed by Deirdre
Examples
- Raising their rifles they fired into the underbrush in the direction from which the missiles had come. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Soon he discovered a spade hidden by the underbrush which they had laid upon the grave. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It seemed an age to him, as to those who waited breathlessly behind, ere he reached the great pile of dry branches and underbrush. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And so he started, stumbling back through the thick and matted underbrush in the direction that he thought the cabin lay. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Lieutenant Charpentier ordered a clearing made and a circular abatis of underbrush constructed about the camp. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The train jumped the track on a short curve, throwing Kruesi, who was driving the engine, with his face down in the dirt, and another man in a comical somersault through some underbrush. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The streams were numerous, deep and sluggish, sometimes spreading out into swamps grown up with impenetrable growths of trees and underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Ah---- he murmured, his head drooping again, and his irresolute hand switching at the underbrush along the lane. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There was also considerable underbrush. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was but a narrow strip of land above water, and that was grown up with underbrush or cane. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Penelope