brushwood vs vegetation

brushwood

noun
  • Small trees and shrubs. 

  • Branches and twigs fallen from trees and shrubs. 

vegetation

noun
  • There were large amounts of vegetation in the forest. 

  • An abnormal verrucous or fibrinous growth 

  • The act or process of vegetating, or growing as a plant does; vegetable growth. 

  • Plants, taken collectively. 

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