underbrush
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noun
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Underbrush - what foresters call “ladder fuels” - now chokes the forests, turning what could have been beneficial fires into the “crown fires” that destroy hundreds of thousands of acres.
From Washington Times • Aug. 22, 2018
Underbrush and undergrowth having been removed by Cale, I caught through the opening the bright gleam of its acetylene lamps.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)
Underbrush is scanty and low, being mostly young seedlings of sugar maple, though seedlings of linden are numerous.
From Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 by Dice, L. R.
Underbrush, ground growth, even saplings of the same species lacked entirely, so that we proceeded in the clear open aisles of a tremendous and spacious magnificence.
From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward
Underbrush, un′dėr-brush, n. brushwood or shrubs in a forest growing beneath large trees: undergrowth.—v.t. to clear away such—also Un′derbush.—vs.i.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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