underbrush

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   shrubs, young trees, ferns, and other dense vegetation growing beneath taller trees

   The search party's view was obscured by thick underbrush.

A compound of under- and brush, using brush in its sense 'dense growth of shrubs and small trees.' The word names the low vegetation beneath a forest canopy and is especially common in North American English.

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