brush
61
2.2
- noun
- /brʌʃ/
- US
:
matorral
- The ratio is three parts brush, wood chips, and cardboard to one part grass clippings.
- leaves and brush
- grass and brush
- trees and brush
And he finds a suitable animal substitute stuck over in the brush, brings him over and sacrifices.
- And he finds a suitable animal substitute stuck over in the brush, brings him over and sacrifices.
- Every single summer there are brush fires that break out.
- Well, every low wind fire that we have is just a brush fire and we put it out.
- No, a Bush, the twig brush brush brush under a hot engine.
Examples
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Without explaining why, he began a careful search of the brush to either side of the path.
Fiction book (1992) -
Woodhue uses a contract grinder to process brush and larger-sized yard trimmings.
Academic text (2001) -
Suddenly, I heard something running through the brush and into the water.
Academic text (2004) -
We'll be cutting through heavy brush for 12 hours a day.
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I found this out beyond the construction perimeter in the brush.
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You didn't happen to find anything in this brush, did you?
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His driveway was almost hidden by brush at the point where it intersected the road.
Fiction book (1991) -
As they came around a patch of brush and small trees, Melissa stopped and pointed.
Fiction book (1990) -
Dierks estimates that 40,000 tons of trees and brush were collected and processed after the storm.
Academic text (1999) -
We found a deer hiding in the dense brush near the river.
Synonyms
29
6.2
Low, thick bushes and small trees that grow on dry land
22
5.1
A thick area of bushes and small trees that grow close together
11
5.6
Small plants, bushes, and young trees that grow under tall trees in a forest
7
3.9
Low plants and bushes that grow under tall trees in a forest
3
7.5
A small group of trees growing close together
1
4.6
Land that has mostly bushes and very few trees
1
4.7
Low bushes or plants that grow close to the ground in dry areas
1
5.7
An area of thick bushes that is hard to walk through
1
9.9
A small group of trees standing alone in open land
1
9.1
Small area of trees or bushes that are cut to the ground regularly to make new growth
An area covered mostly with low bushes and small woody plants
A thick, tangled area of prickly bushes where small animals hide
Thick plants and small trees that grow above the ground in a forest or field
Idioms
- Informal
2
7.2
Describe people or things in very general ways that ignore important details
- Informal
1
8.7
Unfairly judge a whole group because of one person's actions
Compounds
- Specialized
1
3.7
A brush with short, stiff hairs for cleaning or painting rough surfaces
- Specialized
1
7.0
A painting tool with soft sable hairs that makes fine, flexible points
- Specialized
1
5.1
A way of painting that uses very little paint to make a rough, scratchy texture
1
1.6
A small brush that you use to put cream or soap on your face before using a razor
- Specialized
A faint blue electric glow with many thin light rays that appears when high voltage makes a spark
- Australian
A small or medium animal like a kangaroo that lives in forests and thick bushes
- Australian
A large black bird that builds big nesting mounds in the woods of Australia and New Guinea
- Specialized
A medium to large butterfly with bright wings and small front legs not used for walking
- Specialized
A large animal with sharp spines and a brush of stiff hairs at the end of its tail
- Australian
A small animal from Australia and New Guinea that lives in trees and has a pouch and a bushy tail
- Specialized
A rodent with a brush of stiff, bead-like hairs at the tip of its tail
- US
A spreading evergreen shrub with small flowers that grows on dry hills in the southwestern United States
- US
A shrub with thin hairy branches and bright yellow flowers that smells nice and grows on western plains
- Specialized
A long thin paint brush used for painting very fine lines like the ropes on a ship
A tree from Mexico and Guatemala with dense hairy flowers that look like brushes at branch ends
How Dense
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word brush once meant 'brushwood' or a thicket of small bushes, so brush can mean a dense growth of shrubs where animals hide or where fire can spread.