A brake or thicket; thick bush or undergrowth.
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| 释义 | the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood (43) ronea1300 A brake or thicket; thick bush or undergrowth. underwooda1325 Small trees or shrubs, coppice-wood or brush-wood, growing beneath higher timber trees. rammel1338 Small stunted trees or bushes collectively; a thicket. Now Scottish. brushetc1380 Underwood; a small thicket or covert. scroga1400 A stunted bush; usually plural, brushwood, underwood. bushailec1400 collective. Brushwood, underwood. frithing1429 material for fencing; brushwood, underwood. brushal1430 Brushwood, underwood. brushc1440 The small growing trees or shrubs of a wood; a thicket of small trees or underwood. (Esp. in U.S., Canada, and Australia.) ronec1440 northern. A brake or thicket; thick bush or undergrowth; = rone, n.2 thevec1440 The first element of theve-thorn, n., of uncertain derivation: apparently Brush-wood, bush, shrub; = brush, n.1 2. garsil1483 Brushwood used for fencing, or (modern) for burning. shroga1500 A bush; also plural underwood. cablish1594 Strictly, trees blown down, or branches blown off by the wind, but explained by the legal antiquaries of the 16th cent. as = brushwood. south-bois1598 = underwood, n. 1a. undergrowth1600 A growth of plants or shrubs under trees or other tall vegetation; brushwood, underwood. frith1605 Brushwood, underwood; sometimes forming a hedge, hedgewood. hand timber1664 Probably an editorial misreading of hard timber. Subsequently misinterpreted by Wright and Halliwell (see quot. 1859) and taken over in this… subbois1664 Small trees or shrubs growing beneath higher timber trees; = underwood, n. 1a. urith1671 = vrith, s. dialect variant frith, n.2 3. brushwood1732 Small growing trees and shrubs; thicket, underwood. bush-wood1771 underwood, brushwood. underbrush1775 Shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest. slop1784 Growing underwood. woodiness1796 The condition of being full of woods or forests; prevalence or abundance of woodland; concrete woody growth. scrub1805 collective. Stunted trees or shrubs, brushwood; also, a tract of country overgrown with ‘scrub’. In Australian and New Zealand usage, any tract of… shag1836 A (tangled) mass of shrubs, trees, foliage, etc. chaparral1845 Properly: a thicket of low evergreen oaks; (hence) gen. dense tangled brushwood, composed of low thorny shrubs, brambles, briars, etc., such as… underbush1849 Underwood, underbrush. underscrub1870 Undergrowth; brushwood. sand-brush1871 the brush or underwood of a sandy district. buck-brush1874 one or other variety of brush on which deer feed. bush1879 plural = sense 9a. U.S. horizontal scrub1888 An evergreen Tasmanian tree or, in exposed positions, a shrub, Anodopetalum biglandulosum. Also attributive, as horizontal scrub, the mat of… tangle-wood1894 shin-tangle1905 (see quot. 1905). Subcategories:— kind or instance of (2) — of a coppice (5) |
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