Dictionary

brushwood en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈbɹʌʃˌwʊd/ (General-American)

Etymology

From brush + wood.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
   • His pupils assemble every evening before his tent; where, by the light of a large fire, made of brushwood and cow’s dung, they are taught a few sentences from the Koran, and are initiated into the principles of their creed. 1799, Mungo Park, chapter 12, in Travels in the Interior of Africa, volume 1:
   • Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […] 1991, Ivan Turgenev, chapter 3, in Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, page 14:
2. (countable, uncountable) Small trees and shrubs.
   • Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing. 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 279:
   • The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...] 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVI, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 6:
   • Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction. 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:
   • Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man. 1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter 12, in A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, page 169:

Forms

Translations (61)

cmn 柴 (fallen branches and twigs) · gl cisco (fallen branches and twigs) · gd dlùth-bharrach (fallen branches and twigs) · da ris (fallen branches and twigs) · mi heuheu (small trees and shrubs) · ja 柴 (fallen branches and twigs) · sv ris (small trees and shrubs) · pl chrust (fallen branches and twigs) · es sotobosque (small trees and shrubs) · ny tchire (fallen branches and twigs) · uk хмиз (small trees and shrubs) · cmn 矮林 (small trees and shrubs) · uk хмизня́к (small trees and shrubs) · la ramale (fallen branches and twigs) · sk haluzina (fallen branches and twigs) · az çör-çöp (fallen branches and twigs) · gl fronza (fallen branches and twigs) · es broza (fallen branches and twigs) · xcl խռիւ (fallen branches and twigs) · bg съчка (fallen branches and twigs) · fi pensaikko (small trees and shrubs) · bg издънка (small trees and shrubs) · fi maapuu (fallen branches and twigs) · grc ῥώψ (fallen branches and twigs) · hu rőzse (fallen branches and twigs) · ru хво́рост (fallen branches and twigs) · uk хмиз (fallen branches and twigs) · mi mauwha (small trees and shrubs) · mi heu (small trees and shrubs) · ru куста́рник (small trees and shrubs) · fr brindilles (fallen branches and twigs) · it ramaglia (fallen branches and twigs) · pl zarośla (small trees and shrubs) · sv ris (fallen branches and twigs) · gl broza (fallen branches and twigs) · sv sly (small trees and shrubs) · uk хмизня́к (fallen branches and twigs) · pt capim (fallen branches and twigs) · ca brossa (fallen branches and twigs) · de Gestrüpp (small trees and shrubs) · bg пръчка (fallen branches and twigs) · fi pusikko (small trees and shrubs) · gl matogueira (small trees and shrubs) · pt mato (small trees and shrubs) · ru вале́жник (fallen branches and twigs) · mi hururua (small trees and shrubs) · gl mato (small trees and shrubs) · nl rijshout (fallen branches and twigs) · ang spēc (fallen branches and twigs) · be галлё (fallen branches and twigs) · nl kreupelhout (small trees and shrubs) · ny thengo (fallen branches and twigs) · ru за́росли (small trees and shrubs) · mi ururua (small trees and shrubs) · fi risukko (small trees and shrubs) · hy ցախ (fallen branches and twigs) · bg фиданка (small trees and shrubs) · mi hūru (small trees and shrubs) · sk chrastie (fallen branches and twigs) · de Reisig (fallen branches and twigs) · gl mato (fallen branches and twigs)