brushwood.

1. A mass of small bushes, shrubs, or low tangled woody growth.

2. Small branches and twigs gathered for fuel or other use.

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Words that belong together

• dense brushwood
• brushwood thicket

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Dense brushwood concealed the old boundary wall.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.