collective. Twigs or small branches growing on trees or bushes; dense growth of bushes; brushwood… Without article.

A piece of brushwood. Chiefly in plural.

collective. Small or slender twigs of trees or shrubs, either as still growing or as cut off and used for fuel, etc.; fine brushwood.

With the (or that).

In plural. Branches, twigs. (Used once by Drayton as singular.)

The young shoots, leaves, and twigs of shrubs and trees; brushwood. Chiefly North American in later use.

A collection of short and small branches, producing a frizzy appearance.

An abnormal cluster of shoots on a plant, typically resulting from infection. Cf. witches' broom, n.

A mat of vegetation. Also: an abnormal proliferation of branches or twiggy shoots in a tree, as in a witches' broom. Obsolete. rare.

Perhaps: a radiating group of twigs. Cf. wood-rowel, n. Obsolete. rare.

Twigs collectively. Also figurative.

Twigs collectively.