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Brushwood definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRUSH'WOOD, n. [brush and wood.] Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs; also, branches of trees cut off.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the wood from bushes or small branches; "they built a fire of brushwood"
2: a dense growth of bushes [syn: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1613 1. wood of small branches especially when cut or broken 2. a thicket of shrubs and small trees

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 cut or broken twigs etc. 2 undergrowth; a thicket.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Brushwood Brush"wood, n. 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Underwood, shrubs, bushes, brush.