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# brushwood

«brushwood» in Mova's school dictionary: **Small broken branches and twigs lying on the ground or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (brushwood — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Small broken branches and twigs lying on the ground or cut from trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#m1)

2) Thick, low undergrowth of small bushes and shrubs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In outdoor lessons and stories brushwood is what you gather to start a campfire or what makes a forest hard to walk through. Safety: dry brushwood catches fire quickly. In The Wind in the Willows the Mole stumbles through the brushwood of the Wild Wood.

### examples

- We gathered brushwood to light the campfire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x1)
- The path was blocked with brushwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x2)
- A rabbit hid under the brushwood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x3)
- Dry brushwood burns very fast, so be careful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x4)
- The farmer cleared the brushwood from the edge of the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x5)
- The Mole pushed through the brushwood, frightened by the faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x6)
- And the man replied, ‘Why, I’ve merely been gathering a handful of brushwood.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/#x7)

### note

Uncountable: «some brushwood», «a pile of brushwood», not «a brushwood» or «brushwoods». Similar words: twigs, kindling, undergrowth, scrub.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brushwood» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brushwood/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.