Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Branches that have been cut or broken off.
- noun Dense undergrowth.
- noun An area covered by such growth.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
- noun Branches of trees cut off.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
- noun Small branches of trees cut off.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
- noun Small trees and shrubs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the wood from bushes or small branches
- noun a dense growth of bushes
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Examples
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Now, metaphorically speaking, a brush may be taken as a miniature wood; the common use of the term brushwood is a proof of the general acceptance of the metaphor.
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore William Ralston Shedden Ralston 1858
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"Don't broadcast my voice on Seda va Sima [IRIB Music channel] ever again: my voice is like brushwood and thorns, and it will forever remain brushwood and thorns!"
Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17) The Huffington Post News Team 2009
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Close to us, hid in brushwood, was our own piquet; about 1000 yards from us was the Russian piquet.
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The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.
The Lost World 1912
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The Indians carried first our canoes and then our stores through the brushwood, which is very thick at this point, while we four whites, our rifles on our shoulders, walked between them and any danger coming from the woods.
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Even the brushwood is a fruit tree, namely, the guava, which from its abundance is as noxious as a weed.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In John Lubbock 1873
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The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night.
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The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night.
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The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night.
Spero News 2010
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The brushwood is a mixture of twigs and sticks that the men have collected over the course of days, sleeping rough at night.
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