"brushwood" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: brushwoods [plural]
Etymology: From brush + wood. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|brush|wood}} brush + wood Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} brushwood (countable and uncountable, plural brushwoods)
  1. Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (fallen branches and twigs): ῥώψ (rhṓps) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), ցախ (cʻax) (Armenian), çör-çöp (Azerbaijani), галлё (halljó) [neuter] (Belarusian), brossa [feminine] (Catalan), (chái) (Chinese Mandarin), rijshout [neuter] (Dutch), maapuu (Finnish), brindilles [plural] (French), broza [feminine] (Galician), cisco [feminine] (Galician), fronza [feminine] (Galician), mato [masculine] (Galician), Reisig [neuter] (German), rőzse (Hungarian), ramaglia [feminine] (Italian), (shiba) (Japanese), ramale [neuter] (Latin), խռիւ (xṙiw) (Old Armenian), spēc (Old English), chrust [masculine] (Polish), capim [masculine] (Portuguese), хво́рост (xvórost) [masculine] (Russian), вале́жник (valéžnik) [masculine] (Russian), dlùth-bharrach [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), haluzina [feminine] (Slovak), chrastie [neuter] (Slovak), broza [feminine] (Spanish), ris [neuter] (Swedish), хмиз (xmyz) [masculine] (Ukrainian), хмизня́к (xmyznják) [masculine, rare] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-brushwood-en-noun-VZSPr76d Disambiguation of 'fallen branches and twigs': 96 4
  2. Small trees and shrubs. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (small trees and shrubs): 矮林 (ǎilín) (Chinese Mandarin), pusikko (Finnish), pensaikko (Finnish), risukko (Finnish), matogueira [feminine] (Galician), mato [masculine] (Galician), Gestrüpp [neuter] (German), hūru (Maori), hururua (Maori), ururua (Maori), mauwha (Maori), heu (Maori), heuheu (Maori), zarośla [plural] (Polish), mato [masculine] (Portuguese), за́росли (zárosli) [feminine, plural] (Russian), куста́рник (kustárnik) [masculine] (Russian), ris [neuter] (Swedish), sly [neuter] (Swedish), хмизня́к (xmyznják) [masculine] (Ukrainian), хмиз (xmyz) [masculine, rare] (Ukrainian)
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Inflected forms

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          "text": "Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]",
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          "ref": "1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVI, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...]",
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          "text": "Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.",
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          "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "ris"
        },
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          "_dis1": "18 82",
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          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "sly"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "xmyznják",
          "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "хмизня́к"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "18 82",
          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "xmyz",
          "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
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            "masculine",
            "rare"
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          "word": "хмиз"
        }
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  ],
  "word": "brushwood"
}
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    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Ancient Greek translations",
    "Terms with Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Azerbaijani translations",
    "Terms with Belarusian translations",
    "Terms with Catalan translations",
    "Terms with Dutch translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with Galician translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Hungarian translations",
    "Terms with Italian translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Latin translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Maori translations",
    "Terms with Old Armenian translations",
    "Terms with Old English translations",
    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "Terms with Russian translations",
    "Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations",
    "Terms with Slovak translations",
    "Terms with Spanish translations",
    "Terms with Swedish translations",
    "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
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          "ref": "1799, Mungo Park, chapter 12, in Travels in the Interior of Africa, volume 1:",
          "text": "His pupils assemble every evening before his tent; where, by the light of a large fire, made of brushwood and cow’s dung, they are taught a few sentences from the Koran, and are initiated into the principles of their creed.",
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          "ref": "1991, Ivan Turgenev, chapter 3, in Fathers and Sons, Oxford University Press, page 14:",
          "text": "Small streams with hollowed-out banks came into sight, and the tiniest mill-ponds with frail dams, and little villages with low peasant huts under dark roofs, often with half their thatch gone, and small threshing barns all tilted to one side with walls made out of woven brushwood and gaping openings beside dilabidated hay-barns […]",
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        "Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs."
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        {
          "ref": "1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XVI, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume II, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 6:",
          "text": "The river above Goet-accord becomes very narrow, being lined on each ſide with impenetrable bruſh-wood, like the river Cottica, between Devil's-Harwar and Patamaca; [...]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, chapter XV, in The Woodlanders […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 279:",
          "text": "Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copseware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter 12, in A Brazilian Mystic, Being the Life and Miracles of Antonio Conselheiro, London: Heinemann, page 169:",
          "text": "Houses had been deserted, and the thick brushwood of the tropics had grown up over everything, obliterating the brief authority of man.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:",
          "text": "Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "Small trees and shrubs."
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "cʻax",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "ցախ"
    },
    {
      "code": "xcl",
      "lang": "Old Armenian",
      "roman": "xṙiw",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "խռիւ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "çör-çöp"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "halljó",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "галлё"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brossa"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chái",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "柴"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "rijshout"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "maapuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "brindilles"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "broza"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cisco"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "fronza"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mato"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Reisig"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "rhṓps",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ῥώψ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "rőzse"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ramaglia"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shiba",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "柴"
    },
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      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ramale"
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    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "word": "spēc"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "chrust"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "capim"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "xvórost",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хво́рост"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "valéžnik",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "вале́жник"
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      "code": "gd",
      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dlùth-bharrach"
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      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "haluzina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "chrastie"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "broza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ris"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xmyz",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хмиз"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xmyznják",
      "sense": "fallen branches and twigs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "хмизня́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "ǎilín",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "矮林"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "pusikko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "pensaikko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "risukko"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "matogueira"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mato"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Gestrüpp"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "hūru"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "hururua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "ururua"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "mauwha"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "heu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "word": "heuheu"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "zarośla"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mato"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zárosli",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "за́росли"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kustárnik",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "куста́рник"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "ris"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sly"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xmyznják",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "хмизня́к"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xmyz",
      "sense": "small trees and shrubs",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "хмиз"
    }
  ],
  "word": "brushwood"
}

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