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noun
The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To clear (an area) of underbrush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To work among the underbrush.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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noun
the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: undergrowth, underwood
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
Narrower terms: groundcover, ground cover
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h1én Proto-Indo-European *h1entér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhí Proto-Indo-European *-ér Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér Proto-Germanic *under Proto-West Germanic *undar Old English under- Middle English under- English under- Proto-Indo-European *bhers- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *bhr̥stís Proto-Germanic *burstiz Frankish *burstibor. Vulgar Latin *brustia Old French broissebor. Middle English brusshe English brush English underbrush From under- + brush.
Across languages
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
