BRUSHWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brushwood mean? 

• BRUSHWOOD (noun)
  The noun BRUSHWOOD has 2 senses:

1. the wood from bushes or small branches

2. a dense growth of bushes

  Familiarity information: BRUSHWOOD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRUSHWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The wood from bushes or small branches

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Context example:

they built a fire of brushwood

Hypernyms ("brushwood" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A dense growth of bushes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket

Hypernyms ("brushwood" is a kind of...):

botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brushwood"):

brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)

canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))

spinney (a copse that shelters game)

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)

 Context examples 

As they gained the edge of the brushwood, Alleyne, looking back, saw his brother come running out of the house again, with the sun gleaming upon his hair and his beard.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hansel and Gretel gathered brushwood together, as high as a little hill.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I could hear the murmur of our brook somewhere ahead of me, but there was a tangle of trees and brushwood between me and it.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As they streamed past the silent forest around broke suddenly into loud life, with galloping of hoofs, crackling of brushwood, and the short, sharp cries of the hunters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In less than half-an-hour we had reached our brushwood retreat and concealed ourselves.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The brushwood was lighted, and when the flames were burning very high, the woman said: Now, children, lay yourselves down by the fire and rest, we will go into the forest and cut some wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Pushing their way through the dense brushwood, they looked out upon a scene which made their hearts beat harder and their breath come faster.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Following the tracks, we had left the morass and passed through a screen of brushwood and trees.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here and there amid the brushwood the travellers saw the rude bundle of sticks which served them as a home—more like a fowl's nest than the dwelling-place of man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had turned away from the edge, and had penetrated about fifty yards of close brushwood, when there came a frightful rending crash from behind us.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)