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underbrushes

underbrushes is the plural of underbrush.

Meaning of underbrush

Noun

underbrush (usually uncountable, plural underbrushes)

  1. (usually) The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest.
    • How quick the eye and hand to catch him [the ruffed grouse] when he rises from the underbrush and is out of sight in the wood before the untrained sportsman stops him with what is little more than a snapshot, so instantaneously must all be done!1892, Stanley Waterloo, A Man and a Woman

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Questions about underbrushes

What is underbrushes the plural of?
Underbrushes is the plural of underbrush.

Words near underbrushes in the dictionary

  1. underbritches
  2. underbrow
  3. underbrows
  4. underbrush
  5. underbrushed
  6. underbrushes
  7. underbrushing
  8. underbudget
  9. underbudgeted
  10. underbudgeting
  11. underbudgets

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