Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | brush |
| 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: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | collection of something |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, assemblage, assortment, band, batch, bevy, blob, bouquet, bundle, caboodle, chunk, clump, cluster, covey, crew, crowd, fascicle, flock, galaxy, gang, gathering, group, heap, host, hunk, knot, lot, mass, mess, mob, multitude, number, oodles*, pack, parcel, party, passel, pile, quantity, sheaf, shebang, shock, shooting match, spray, stack, swarm, team, thicket, troop, tuft |
| Antonyms: | individual, one |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bush |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shrubs; woodland |
| Synonyms: | backcountry, backwoods, boscage, bramble, briar, brush, chaparral, creeper, forest, hedge, hinterland, jungle, outback, plant, scrub, scrubland, shrubbery, the wild, thicket, vine, wilderness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | forest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area with a large number of trees |
| Synonyms: | backwoods, brake, chase, clump, coppice, copse, cover, covert, grove, growth, jungle, park, shelter, stand, thicket, timber, timberland, weald, wildwood, wood, woodland, woodlot, woods |
| Main Entry: | grove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cluster of trees |
| Synonyms: | brake, coppice, copse, covert, forest, orchard, plantation, spinney, stand, thicket, wood, woodland |
| Main Entry: | hedge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, obstacle, especially one made of plants |
| Synonyms: | barrier, bush, enclosure, fence, guard, hedgerow, hurdle, protection, quickset, screen, shrubbery, thicket, windbreak |
| Main Entry: | woods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forest |
| Synonyms: | boscage, bosk, coppice, copse, silva, thicket, woodland |
| Main Entry: | coppice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | woods |
| Synonyms: | bosk, copse, firth, forest, grove, growth, regrow, thicket, underwood, wood, woodland |
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