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BRUSHWOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A dense growth of bushes
Synonyms:
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("brushwood" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brushwood"):
brake (an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant)
canebrake (a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane))
spinney (a copse that shelters game)
underbrush; undergrowth; underwood (the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The wood from bushes or small branches
Example:
they built a fire of brushwood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("brushwood" is a kind of...):
wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)
Context examples:
After him there came a second man, and after him a third, a fourth, and a fifth stealing across the narrow open space and darting into the shelter of the brushwood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were coming through the brushwood and threatening to cut us off.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he spoke, a dozen men rushed forward, each screening himself behind a huge fardel of brushwood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We staggered through the brushwood, and even as we reached the trees the harpies were on us again.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
High and strong the chateaux, lowly and weak the brushwood hut; but God help the seigneur and his lady when the men of the brushwood set their hands to the work of revenge!
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We were rising from our brushwood hiding-place when suddenly I felt his grip upon my arm.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They still piled the brushwood round the base of the tower, and gambolled hand in hand around the blaze, screaming out the doggerel lines which had long been the watchword of the Jacquerie.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Finally we pulled the boats up among the brushwood and spent the night on the bank of the river.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They are the Jacks, the men of the brushwood.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The huge trees of the alluvial Amazonian plain gave place to the Phoenix and coco palms, growing in scattered clumps, with thick brushwood between.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
