Noun:

शाखा-काष्ठ, झांखर,

brushwood's Usage Examples:

In the low brushwood scattered over portions of the dreary plains of the Kandahar table-lands, we find leguminous thorny plants of the papilionaceous sub-order, such as camel-thorn (Hedysarum Alhagi), Astragalus in several varieties, spiny rest-harrow (Ononis spinosa), the fibrous roots of which often serve as a tooth-brush; plants of the sub-order Mimosae, as the sensitive mimosa; a plant of the rue family, called by the natives lipdtd; the common wormwood; also certain orchids, and several species of Salsola.

Goats are fed in considerable number on the brushwood pasture of the hills; and hares (in spite of Aristotle's supposed assertion of their absence) are exceptionally abundant.

The growth of the worms during their larval stage is thus stated by Count Dandolo: - When the caterpillars are mature and ready to undergo their transformation into the pupa condition, they cease eating for some time and then begin to ascend the brushwood branches or echelletes provided for them, in which they set about the spinning of their cocoons.

However, a fire could be made by means of the moss and dry brushwood, which covered certain parts of the plateau.

The soil is quartz sand and is chiefly covered with heather and brushwood.

Large areas are covered with brushwood, among which are scattered baobab, shea-butter, bread fruit, corkwood and silk-cotton trees.

A quantity of it is really brushwood, used for the manufacture of charcoal and for fuel, coal being little used except for manufacturing purposes.

Dense brushwood prevails on the foothills.

The ox-wagons with their solid wheels, and the curious water-wheels of brushwood with earthenware pots tied on to them and turned by a blindfolded donkey, are picturesque.

The ruins are now thickly overgrown with brushwood; but the walls, nearly 2 m.

Synonyms:

copse, spinney, underbrush, flora, canebrake, brush, botany, vegetation, coppice, underwood, undergrowth, brake, thicket,

Antonyms:

dirty, stand still, nondevelopment, start, fauna,