0 → undergrowth
1 a mass of bushes, small trees, and plants growing under the trees in woods or a forest
Below the surface of these survey responses, at the underbrush, is a different picture.
We will still want to theorise, but we may linger in the underbrush of particulars and delay the leap that theory demands.
The underbrush we omit as non-essential is in fact essential to the workings of the system.
First, there is the floppy sort of hat which people use while going through thick underbrush.
Although it was heavily timbered with oak and hickory with an impenetrable hazel underbrush, the site was at the geographical center of the county.
The heavy underbrush on higher ground was also cleared out, while the established pines and maples were carefully preserved.
The first pioneers into the area started clearing the river bottoms of the thick underbrush of cottonwood and willows.
Solitary, nocturnal and arboreal, they prefer the underbrush and the lower layers of the forests.
