brushwood

/ˌbrʌʃˈwʊd/

Other forms: brushwoods

Definitions of brushwood

1. noun

   a dense growth of bushes
   synonyms: brush, coppice, copse, thicket

   types:

   brake

   an area thickly overgrown usually with one kind of plant

   canebrake

   a dense growth of cane (especially giant cane)

   spinney

   a copse that shelters game

   underbrush, undergrowth, underwood

   the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

   ground cover, groundcover

   small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor

   type of:

   botany, flora, vegetation

   all the plant life in a particular region or period
2. noun

   the wood from bushes or small branches
   “they built a fire of brushwood”

   type of:

   wood

   the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees