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Definition: Underbrush |
UnderbrushNoun1. The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "underbrush" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A loose term generally comprising both the herbaceous cover and the lower shrubs, and even the lowest trees, under a forest canopy. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Brushwood growing in a forest. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Underbrush is a term used to describe the low shrubs and young trees that grow on the floor of a forest. The underbrush provides vital food and habitat for many woodland animals.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Underbrush."
Synonyms: UnderbrushSynonyms: undergrowth (n), underwood (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Underbrush |
| English words defined with "underbrush": grove ♦ Laund ♦ scrabbly, scrubby. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of underbrush. There are several of these abandoned groves in this section, due to lack of finances for cultivation and irrigation. There is also much absentee ownership in the citrus indus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Hiawatha highlands autumn leav" by Jeff L Commentary: "It almost looks like the underbrush is on fire, the fall colours are in full glory here, against the dark green of the white pines. Taken at the Hiawatha Highlands conservation area in Sault Ste. Marie, ontario." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The underbrush, bristling as it was, appeared, to him the best road |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Underbrush" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Underbrush" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
underbrush | 8 |
underbrush blind | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "underbrush"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | gëmushë (brushwood, shrub, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | храсталак (boscage, brush, brushwood, shrubbery, spinney, undergrowth), шубрак (chaparral, scrub, shrub, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Chinese | 草叢 . (various references) | |
Czech | podrost (brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, scrub, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Danish | undervegetation af krat, undervegetation (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), undervækst (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), underskov (brush, scrub, shrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), kratskov (area of stunted trees, forest of stunted trees, scrub, scrub forest, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Dutch | struikgewas), onderhout (scrub, shrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), ondergroei (scrub, shrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Farsi | درخت کوچک روینده درزیردرخت , بوته (Brushwood, Bush, Herb, Shrub, Sprig). (various references) | |
Finnish | pensaskerros, aluskasvillisuus (ground vegetation, undergrowth), alikasvos (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth). (various references) | |
French | sous-bois (undergrowth), brousse de sous-étage. (various references) | |
German | Unterwuchs (scrub, shrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth, understory, underwood), Unterholz (brake, brush, coppice, underbrushes, undergrowth, underwood, underwoods). (various references) | |
Greek | χαμόκλαδα (brush, brushwood, shrubbery, undergrowth). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bozót (boskage, brushwood, bush, cover, Frith, Holt, overgrowth, scrub, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, Tod), aljnövényzet (undergrowth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | semak belukar. (various references) | |
Italian | sottobosco (undergrowth, Underwood). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 下生え (undergrowth). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | したばえ (undergrowth). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | erbrushunday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vegetação rasteira (undergrowth, underwood), sub-bosque (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), estrato arbustivo e herbáceo (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth), estrato arbustivo. (various references) | |
Romanian | pãdure tânãrã. (various references) | |
Russian | подлесок (boscage, copse, spinney, undergrowth, underwood). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žbunje (shrubbery, undergrowth), šikara (boscage, boskage, coppice). (various references) | |
Spanish | sotobosque (scrub, shrub layer, shrub stratum, undergrowth, understory, underwood), maleza (brush, brushwood, scrub, undergrowth, weed). (various references) | |
Swedish | undervegetation (undergrowth), snårskog (brush). (various references) | |
Turkish | ağaç altındaki çalılık (undergrowth). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | bụi cây thấp (underwood). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "underbrush": underbrushes. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "underbrush" (pronounced u"nderbru'sh) |
| 4 | -b r u' sh | paintbrush, sagebrush, toothbrush. |
| 3 | -r u' sh | bulrush. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: undershrub. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-h-n-r-r-s-u-u" | |
-1 letter: unbrushed. | |
-2 letters: unrushed. | |
-3 letters: brushed, brusher, burdens, burners, subduer. | |
-4 letters: burden, burned, burner, burred, bushed, busher, nursed, nurser, redubs, reruns, rushed, rusher, subdue, sunder, unbred, unshed, unsure, unused, usurer. | |
-5 letters: bends, brens, brush, buhrs, bunds, burds, burns, burrs, burse, bused, drubs, druse, dunes, dures, durns, durrs, herbs, herds, herns, hurds, nerds, nuder, nudes, nurds, nurse. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-h-n-r-r-s-u-u" | |
+1 letter: undershrubs. | |
+2 letters: underbrushes. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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