Synonyms of the word

brushwood

• n. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs.
• n. Small trees and shrubs.

botany

• n. (uncountable) The scientific study of plants, a branch of biology. Typically those disciplines that involve…
• n. The plant life of a geographical area.
• n. The properties and life phenomena exhibited by a plant, plant type, or plant group.
• n. (countable) A botanical treatise or study, especially of a particular system of botany or that of a particular…

brush

• n. An implement consisting of multiple more or less flexible bristles or other filaments attached to a handle,…
• n. A piece of conductive material, usually carbon, serving to maintain electrical contact between the stationary…
• n. The act of brushing something.
• n. (uncountable) Wild vegetation, generally larger than grass but smaller than trees (Wikipedia).
• n. A short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience.
• n. The furry tail of an animal, especially of a fox.
• n. (zoology) A tuft of hair on the mandibles.
• n. (archaic) A short contest, or trial, of speed.
• n. (music) An instrument, resembling a brush, used to produce a soft sound from drums or cymbals.
• n. (computer graphics) An on-screen tool for "painting" a particular colour or texture.
• n. (video games) In 3D video games, a convex polyhedron, especially one that defines structure of the play…
• n. (poker, slang) The floorperson of a poker room, usually in a casino.
• n. (North Wisconsin, uncountable) Evergreen boughs, especially balsam, locally cut and baled for export,…
• v. (transitive) To clean with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To untangle or arrange with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To apply with a brush.
• v. (transitive) To remove with a sweeping motion.
• v. (transitive) To touch with a sweeping motion, or lightly in passing.
• v. (intransitive) To clean one's teeth by brushing them.

coppice

• n. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes,…
• v. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote…
• v. To sprout from the stump.

copse

• n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
• v. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

flora

• n. plants considered as a group, especially those of a particular country, region, time, etc.
• n. a book describing the plants of a country etc.
• n. The microorganisms that inhabit some part of the body, such as intestinal flora.

thicket

• n. A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
• n. (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
• n. (computing, figuratively) The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in…

vegetation

• n. (uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.
• n. (pathology, countable) An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth.
• n. The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth.

wood

• n. (uncountable) The substance making up the central part of the trunk and branches of a tree. Used as a…
• n. (countable) The wood of a particular species of tree.
• n. (countable) A forested or wooded area.
• n. Firewood.
• n. (countable, golf) A type of golf club, the head of which was traditionally made of wood.
• n. (music) A woodwind instrument.
• n. (uncountable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (chess, uncountable, slang) Chess pieces.
• v. (transitive) To cover or plant with trees.
• v. (transitive) To supply with wood, or get supplies of wood for.
• v. To take or get a supply of wood.
• adj. (obsolete) Mad, insane, crazed.
• n. (US, sometimes offensive, chiefly prison slang, of a person) A peckerwood.