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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

sarças

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ˈsaɾ.sɐs/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Brushwood/ˈbrʌʃ.wʊd/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #14500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Eles juntaram gravetos e sarças para a fogueira."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Underwood or small trees and shrubs, or the fallen branches and twigs of trees.

    "The hikers struggled to make their way through the dense patch of dry brushwood."
  2. 2

    Cut branches collected for firewood or fencing.

    "They gathered piles of brushwood to feed the campfire through the chilly night."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The word is a compound combining the Middle English 'brusch' (derived from Old French 'brousce', meaning thicket or brushwood) and 'wood' (from Old English 'wudu'). It has been used since the 15th century to describe small branches, twigs, and undergrowth broken off or gathered from trees.

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