underbrush
verbEtymology From under- + brush.
1
To clear (an area) of underbrush.
2
To work among the underbrush.
underbrush
nounUS /ˈʌndɚˌbɹʌʃ/
Etymology From under- + brush.
1
Usually The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
- 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!1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman:
- Synonyms
- underbush, undergrowth, understory