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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scrappy bushes |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bracken, brushwood, chaparral, coppice, copse, cover, dingle, fern, gorse, grove, hedge, scrub, sedge, shrubbery, spinney, thicket, undergrowth, underwood |
| Main Entry: | jungle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wilderness full of plant and animal life |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bush, chaparral, forest, labyrinth, maze, morass, primeval forest, tangle, undergrowth, wasteland, web, wood, zoo |
| Main Entry: | woods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosk, coppice, copse, silva, thicket, woodland |
| Main Entry: | thicket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosk, brake, brush, brushwood, bush, chaparral, clump, coppice, copse, covert, grove, growth, hedge, shrubbery, spinny, underbrush, wood, woods |
| Main Entry: | copse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grove |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosk, brushwood, coppice, thicket |
| Main Entry: | underbrush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undergrowth |
| Synonyms: | boscage, boskage, brake, brush, brushwood, bush, coppice, copse, thicket, understory, underwood |
| Main Entry: | undergrowth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | underbrush |
| Synonyms: | boscage, boskage, brake, brush, brushwood, bush, coppice, copse, thicket, understory, underwood |
| Main Entry: | shrub |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plant |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosket, brier, bush, foliage, hedge, shrubbery, thicket, topiary, tree |
| Notes: | bush and shrub are used interchangeably for relatively low woody perennials with many stems and branches that grow from a complex close to the ground; a tree is a woody perennial, usually taller, with branches starting higher up |
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