brushwood
Americannoun
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the wood of branches that have been cut or broken off.
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a pile or covering of such branches.
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a growth or thicket of densely growing small trees and shrubs.
noun
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cut or broken-off tree branches, twigs, etc
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another word for brush 2
Etymology
Origin of brushwood
Example Sentences
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Greenhorns Stan and Ollie go to Brushwood Gulch with a gold-mine deed and get a bum steer.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2020
"It makes beautiful graphics," concedes Dale Brushwood of the Orange County school board, "but I'm not convinced it's not just a gimmick."
From Time Magazine Archive
Nevertheless, it shocked the sensibilities of a nation brought up on The Brushwood Boy and Tom Brown's School Days.
From Time Magazine Archive
In The Brushwood Boy, he built a boy-meets-girl idyll around the notion that dreams may be shared though the dreamers be continents apart.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rudyard Kipling, rarely; when he touches it, the reason is usually because it happens to embrace the military caste, and the result is usually such mawkish stories as "William the Conqueror" and "The Brushwood Boy."
From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold
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