Synonyms:
underbrush, undergrowth, underwood
Meaning: the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Usage examples
For miles she sneaked through the underbrush, and watched and listened; until at last night came, and she returned to Rainbow Bottom.
Plato led the way by the road through the woods to a point where, amid somewhat thick underbrush, another path intersected the road they were following.
From there she glided through the bushes and underbrush, trembling and quaking, yet pushing stoutly onward, straining her ears for some note of the brilliant stranger's.
Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.
The thrush came gliding up the river bank, a rusty-coated, sneaking thing of the underbrush, and taking possession of a thorn bush just opposite the sumac, he sang for an hour in the open.
For many minutes the intricacy of the route admitted of no further dialogue; after which they emerged from the broad border of underbrush which grew along the line of the highway, and entered under the high but dark arches of the forest.
The miner, wherever he went, sounded the knell of fur-trading; and the trapper did not like to have his game preserve overrun by fellows who scared off all animals from traps, set fire going to clear away underbrush, and owned responsibility to no authority.