| NOUN | substance | brushwood | the wood from bushes or small branches |
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| group | brushwood, brush, coppice, copse, thicket | a dense growth of bushes |
| Meaning | The wood from bushes or small branches. | |
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| Example | "they built a fire of brushwood" | |
| Broader | wood | The hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees |
| Meaning | A dense growth of bushes. | |
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| Synonyms | brush, coppice, copse, thicket | |
| Narrower | 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 / forest | |
| Broader | vegetation, flora, botany | All the plant life in a particular region or period |
| Spanish | boscaje, bosquecillo, bosquete, broza, floresta, maraña, matorral, monte bajo | |
| Catalan | boscam, boscany, boscatge, matollar, matoll | |
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