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usually uncountable, plural underbrushes
The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest. quotations examples
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!
1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman
third-person singular simple present underbrushes, present participle underbrushing, simple past and past participle underbrushed
(transitive) To clear (an area) of underbrush. examples
(intransitive) To work among the underbrush. examples