brushwood

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of BRUSHWOOD

a thick patch of shrubbery, small trees, or underbrush <cleared away the brushwood in order to build a shed>

Synonyms boscage (also boskage), bosk (or bosque), bosquet, brake, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, covert

Related Words canebrake; brush, bush, scrub, scrubland; bramble, jungle, tangle; grove, hedge, stand, woodlot; forest, greenwood, wildwood, wood, woodland

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