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Underbrush

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

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Brush 76% connected

An instrument composed of bristles, or other like material, set in a suitable back or handle, as of wood, bone, or ivory, and used for various purpos…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Brushwood 76% connected

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

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Coppice 76% connected

A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.

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Copse 76% connected

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.

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Thicket 76% connected

A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

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Forest 70% connected

An extensive wood; a large tract of land covered with trees; in the United States, a wood of native growth, or a tract of woodland which has never be…

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Wood 70% connected

Mad; insane; possessed; rabid; furious; frantic.

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Undergrowth 92% connected

That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Underwood 92% connected

Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.

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Alder noun · 78% connection

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tann…

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Arbustive adjective · 78% connection

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs.

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Bloody hand unknown · 78% connection

A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the…

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Border verb · 78% connection

To be, or to have, contiguous to; to touch, or be touched, as by a border; to be, or to have, near the limits or boundary; as, the reg…

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Brake noun · 78% connection

A thicket; a place overgrown with shrubs and brambles, with undergrowth and ferns, or with canes.

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Bush noun · 78% connection

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

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Disafforest verb · 78% connection

To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to exempt from forest laws.

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Dogwood noun · 78% connection

The Cornus, a genus of large shrubs or small trees, the wood of which is exceedingly hard, and serviceable for many purposes.

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Elaeagnus noun · 78% connection

A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

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Erythroxylon noun · 78% connection

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

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Espalier noun · 78% connection

A railing or trellis upon which fruit trees or shrubs are trained, as upon a wall; a tree or row of trees so trained.

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Eugenia noun · 78% connection

A genus of myrtaceous plants, mostly of tropical countries, and including several aromatic trees and shrubs, among which are the trees…

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Fraxinus noun · 78% connection

A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

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Gardenia noun · 78% connection

any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers

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Grove verb · 78% connection

A smaller group of trees than a forest, and without underwood, planted, or growing naturally as if arranged by art; a wood of small ex…

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Halesia noun · 78% connection

A genus of American shrubs containing several species, called snowdrop trees, or silver-bell trees. They have showy, white flowers, dr…

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Jacaranda noun · 78% connection

The native Brazilian name for certain leguminous trees, which produce the beautiful woods called king wood, tiger wood, and violet woo…

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Large superl. · 78% connection

Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units; big; gre…

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