underbrush

Speech parts

1. underbrush - Noun

2. underbrush - Verb

Meaning

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

undergrowth understory bush forest flora underwood chaparral coppice vegetation brake residual brush hedge covert weed
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Antonyms

desert indoors wasteland fallen leaves dry leaves fallen tree leaves
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Hypernyms

coppice brush brushwood copse

Anagrams

undershrub

Examples

Bill and Hillary Clinton have one central idea in their uncluttered, ambitious minds: Hillary in 2008. Let Bush get re-elected, use the '04 primaries and general election to clean out the underbrush of competing Democratic candidates, and proceed unimpeded to the '08 nomination. Dick Morris

The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id. Charlie Pierce

Neither liberal nor conservative politicians can resist the temptation to stand as mighty sequoias of rectitude amid the lowly underbrush of fundraising. P. J. O'Rourke

Attackers could only thrash noisily and blindly forward through the underbrush, perfect targets for the concealed defenders. Source: Internet

In A.P. Hill's division's line, a triangular patch of the woods that extended beyond the railroad was swampy and covered with thick underbrush and the Confederates had left a 600-yard gap there between the brigades of Brig. Gens. Source: Internet

But when you actually begin to tread on the path, you realize that you have to clear out the jungle and all the trees, underbrush, and obstacles growing in front of you. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

underbring underbritches underbrow underbudget underbuild underbuilder