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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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