UNDERBRUSH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underbrush mean? 

• UNDERBRUSH (noun)
  The noun UNDERBRUSH has 1 sense:

1. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

  Familiarity information: UNDERBRUSH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERBRUSH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood

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

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)

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

ground cover; groundcover (small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor)

Holonyms ("underbrush" is a member of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

 Context examples 

Gun in hand, he plunged into the underbrush that lined the side of the trail.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

From the thicket-covered hillside came a crashing of underbrush, and then, forty feet above them, on the edge of the sheer wall of rock, appeared a wolf's head and shoulders.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

For a day at a time he would lie in the underbrush where he could watch the partridges drumming and strutting up and down.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But here the country seemed wilder than ever, and after a long and tiresome walk through the underbrush they entered another forest, where the trees were bigger and older than any they had ever seen.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Bill had already gone from sight; but now and again, appearing and disappearing amongst the underbrush and the scattered clumps of spruce, could be seen One Ear.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He whined pleadingly, and scurried playfully in and out of the underbrush.

(White Fang, by Jack London)