underbrush

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Underbrush - what foresters call “ladder fuels” - now chokes the forests, turning what could have been beneficial fires into the “crown fires” that destroy hundreds of thousands of acres.

From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2018

Underbrush filled the forests, so thick and dense as to be almost impassable.

From Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume III by Morris, Charles

Underbrush impeded them, tore at her skirts and her bare ankles, till Channing picked her up in his arms and carried her; not easily, for he was little taller than herself, but very willingly.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

Underbrush, un′dėr-brush, n. brushwood or shrubs in a forest growing beneath large trees: undergrowth.—v.t. to clear away such—also Un′derbush.—vs.i.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Underbrush and undergrowth having been removed by Cale, I caught through the opening the bright gleam of its acetylene lamps.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)