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Webster 1913 Edition


Underbrush

Un′der-brushˊ

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Noun.
Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

Webster 1828 Edition


Underbrush

UN'DERBRUSH

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Noun.
Shrubs and small trees in a wood or forest, growing under large trees.

Definition 2024


underbrush

underbrush

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Noun

underbrush (usually uncountable, plural underbrushes)

  1. The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
    • Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman
      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!

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