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under-brush

See definition of under-brush on Dictionary.com
  • as inshrubbery
  • as inthicket
  • as inunderbrush
  • as inthicket

synonyms for under-brush

  • underbrush
  • brush
  • bushes
  • hedge
  • scrub
  • thicket
  • brake
  • brush
  • brushwood
  • bush
  • coppice
  • copse
  • underwood
  • boscage
  • boskage
  • understory
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On this page you'll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to under-brush, such as: underbrush, brush, bushes, hedge, and scrub.
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How to use under-brush in a sentence

Bending to the earth, he crept cautiously along, concealing himself as best he could, by the under brush and tall grass.
THE BORDER SPYLIEUT. COL. HAZELTINE
It would require a skilful engineer to trace the original line now in consequence of the rapid growth of under brush.
SAGES AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONL. CARROLL JUDSON
In many places the under-brush was so dense that it was laborious work to force our way through it.
BY CANOE AND DOG-TRAINEGERTON RYERSON YOUNG
A city without them, looks like a piece of thick woods without any sweet, green under-brush and harnsome flowers.
HIGHLIFE IN NEW YORK: A SERIES OF LETTERS TO MR. ZEPHARIAH SLICK,ANN S. STEPHENS
It is a dreary and almost uninhabited wilderness, of wild ravines, and tangled under-brush.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOL. V, NO. XXV, JUNE, 1852VARIOUS
Placing grain under brush just occupied by a bunch of Quails.
BIRD-LORE MARCH-APRIL 1916VARIOUS
They nest at a low elevation in bushes or under brush, often over the water.
THE BIRD BOOKCHESTER A. REED
I followed a cattle path through the thick under-brush until I came to a slope that fell away abruptly to the water's edge.
MY ANTONIAWILLA CATHER
It is only the cougar prowling cattishly through the under-brush perhaps still-hunting the hunter.
THE STORY OF THE TRAPPERA. C. LAUT
Probably by searching under bridges, under brush-heaps, in holes and cavities in banks where the sun falls warm.
BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHSJOHN BURROUGHS
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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