单词 | underbush |
释义 | underbushn. Underwood, underbrush. ΘΚΠ 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 ronea1300 underwooda1325 rammel1338 brushetc1380 scroga1400 bushailec1400 frithing1429 brushal1430 brushc1440 ronec1440 thevec1440 garsil1483 shroga1500 cablish1594 south-bois1598 undergrowth1600 frith1605 hand timber1664 subbois1664 urith1671 brushwood1732 bush-wood1771 underbrush1775 slop1784 woodiness1796 scrub1805 shag1836 chaparral1845 underbush1849 underscrub1870 sand-brush1871 buck-brush1874 bush1879 horizontal scrub1888 tangle-wood1894 shin-tangle1905 1849 S. C. Brees Guide & Descr. N.Z. 27 Crawling along the ground, among the underbush and trees. 1867 tr. p. Guéranger's Life St. Austin x. 97 Others grafting fruit trees, or thinning the underbush. a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iv. ii. 315 Smoke rose in the green underbush. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 114 Pretty trailing lycopodium climbing..over the cardamoms which abound in the under-bush. Derivatives ˈunderbush v. (transitive) = underbrush vb. at underbrush n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land redeeOE ridlOE grubc1374 stub1464 clot1483 shrub1553 clear1634 cure1719 stump1796 spade1819 slash1821 underbrush1824 to clean up1839 underbush1886 screef1913 1886 Nature 21 Jan. 269/2 I was watching a coolie under~bushing in the bush. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1849 |
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