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Definition of Brushwood
1. Noun. The wood from bushes or small branches. "They built a fire of brushwood"
2. Noun. A dense growth of bushes.
Generic synonyms: Botany, Flora, Vegetation
Specialized synonyms: Brake, Canebrake, Spinney, Underbrush, Undergrowth, Underwood
Derivative terms: Brushy
Definition of Brushwood
1. n. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.
Definition of Brushwood
1. Noun. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs. ¹
2. Noun. Small trees and shrubs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brushwood
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Medical Definition of Brushwood
1. 1. Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs. 2. Small branches of trees cut off. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brushwood
Literary usage of Brushwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metallurgy of Lead: Including Desilverisartion and Cupellation by John Percy (1870)
"Boliche with brushwood as futi.—Three charges of ore, of 86 arroba« each, were
worked off in 24 hours, with a consumption of about an equal weight of ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... not spread over я wide space ; and they carried to it brushwood, and stone,
and soil, and whatever else would help to complete it when thrown on. ..."
3. Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainments: And for the Use of edited by Robert McLean Cumnock (1898)
"brushwood. On a weary slope of Apennine, At sober dusk of day's decline, ...
A withered woman, tanned and bent, Bearing her bundled brushwood went, ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1882)
"... and "brushwood,1 with many illustrations by F. Diriman, and is bound ш fine
bindings, especially the new style, full call. with illuminated sides. ..."
5. Trench Warfare: A Manual for Officers and Men by Joseph Shuter Smith (1917)
"brushwood AND STRAW brushwood should not be placed in a trench bottom, ...
Once brushwood has been trodden into the mud it is absolutely impossible to ..."
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