underbrush — English Dictionary

Noun

1. The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.

   Usage

   • Uncountable
   • usually

   Synonyms

   underbushundergrowthunderstory

   Examples

   More examples (1)

   How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!

Verb

1. To clear (an area) of underbrush.

   Usage

   • Transitive

2. To work among the underbrush.

   Usage

   • Intransitive

Noun

1. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

   Synonyms

   undergrowthunderwood

   Broader terms

   brushbrushwoodcoppicecopsethicket