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ˈunderbush, n.
[under-1 5 c.]
Underwood, underbrush.
1849S. C. Brees Panorama N.Z. 27 Crawling along the ground, among the underbush and trees. 1867tr. Guéranger's Life St. Austin x. 97 Others grafting fruit trees, or thinning the underbush. 1891Stevenson South Seas iv. ii, Smoke rose in the green underbush. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 114 Pretty trailing lycopodium climbing..over the cardamoms which abound in the under-bush.
Hence ˈunderbush v. trans., = underbrush v.
1886Nature 21 Jan. 269/2, I was watching a coolie under⁓bushing in the bush. |