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brushland

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brush⋅land

  [bruhsh-land]
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–noun
brush 2 (def. 4).
Origin:
1850–55; brush 2 + -land

brush

2  [bruhsh]
–noun
1. a dense growth of bushes, shrubs, etc.; scrub; thicket.
2. a pile or covering of lopped or broken branches; brushwood.
3. bushes and low trees growing in thick profusion, esp. close to the ground.
4. Also called brushland. land or an area covered with thickly growing bushes and low trees.
5. backwoods; a sparsely settled wooded region.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME brusshe < MF broisse, OF broce underbrush (cf. AF brousson wood, brusseie heath), perh. < VL *bruscia excrescences, deriv. of L bruscum knot or excrescence on a maple tree

Related forms:
brush⋅i⋅ness, noun
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brush

  1. n.
    an encounter; a close shave. : My brush with the bear was so close I could smell its breath—which was vile, I might add.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

brush  (2)
"shrubbery," 1330, from Anglo-Fr. bruce "brushwood," O.N.Fr. broche, O.Fr. brosse, from Gallo-Romance *brocia, perhaps from *brucus "heather," or possibly from the same source as brush (1). Brushfire is from 1850.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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