underbrush

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Recent Examples of underbrush At dawn, the participants scraped the underbrush to remove all traces of their presence. Will Higginbotham Marlena Sloss, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2024 Many scents stick out in my mind and are part of my life, such as my childhood garden in Normandy and the Corsican underbrush, which gave me my first olfactory shock. Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024 The goats are being housed at the Crystal Canyon Natural Area to clear invasive plants and underbrush from the area. Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2024 Goats like Wynonna are an environmentally sustainable way to get rid of underbrush and turn it into fertilizer. Candi Bolden, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Feb. 2024 See all Example Sentences for underbrush 
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Noun
  • Here, behind dense undergrowth—is this the island’s oldest building?
    Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The overall color pattern would have helped the dinosaur blend into the undergrowth, paleontologists hypothesize, while the banded tail could have been a striking visual signal.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Zink takes the time to camouflage, paying attention to every detail, grassing the chicken-wire frame of his boat blind with natural vegetation.
    Joe Arterburn, Outdoor Life, 14 Nov. 2024
  • Unlike typical droughts, which can develop over extended periods, flash droughts emerge due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, intense sunlight, and strong winds, which speed up the drying of soils and vegetation.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Every year, thousands flock to the Catskills, New York to bask in the beauty of the fall foliage.
    Anna Haines, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • The images produced by the SAR satellites can show objects under cover or foliage, unlike optical satellites, although hiding from eyes in the sky has always been a concern, Suess said.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024

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“Underbrush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underbrush. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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