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US
/ˈəndɝˌbɹəʃ/
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NOUN
- the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
How To Use underbrush In A Sentence
- Lucretius is constantly urging his readers to follow their “sagacious” wits to the truth, like dogs hunting down quarry through the underbrush. The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
- Others skirted the edge of the underbrush, and took up ambush positions around the forces of the government.
- On the forest floor, two rabbit-sized, hoofed animals hop through the low underbrush.
- In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was necessary. Les Miserables
- Soon once more we were in underbrush and presently came square against a staked-and-ridered worm fence around a "deadening" dense with tall corn. The Flower of the Chapdelaines
- It was thick with trees and underbrush and stretched far into the distance.
- When a warm body walks through thick underbrush and passes a tick, the tick attaches itself by clinging to clothing or fur.
- Officers searched the area and eventually found Barralaga dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in some thick underbrush beneath the state Highway 242 overcrossing at Olivera KPIX: Top Stories Videos
- Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming.
- He never found me, I only saw him crashing through the trees and underbrush like a herd of wild buffalo.