underbrush
pronunciation
How to pronounce underbrush in British English:
UK [ˈʌndəbrʌʃ]
How to pronounce underbrush in American English:
US [ˈʌndərbrʌʃ]
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- Noun:
- the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Word Origin
- underbrush (n.)
- "shrub and small trees in a forest," 1775, from under + brush (n.2). Originally American English; compare undergrowth, attested in the same sense from 1600.
Example
- 1. Hew a path through the underbrush .
- 2. That gillespie hopes is what the underbrush and the sands will yield .
- 3. Clearing of underbrush for the new city probably began in march 1718 .
- 4. A rabbit ran into the underbrush .
- 5. En route , they passed various groups of soldiers lying about in the underbrush .