underbrush

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Noun

underbrush (uncountable)

1. The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
   • 1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

     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!

Synonyms

• undergrowth
• understory

Translations

• French: sous-bois
• German: Unterholz
• Russian: подле́сок

Verb

underbrush (underbrushes, present participle underbrushing; past and past participle underbrushed)

1. (transitive) To clear (an area) of underbrush.
2. (intransitive) To work among the underbrush.

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