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At dawn, the participants scraped the underbrush to remove all traces of their presence.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for underbrush
Noun
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Here, behind dense undergrowth—is this the island’s oldest building?Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
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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
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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
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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
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To send the plant into dormancy, remove any old foliage.Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Oct. 2024
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The Musée du Quai Branly is a long ark of a building perched over a garden, whose foliage screens the museum from its busy namesake thoroughfare on the banks of the Seine.Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Underbrush.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/underbrush. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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