thicket vs underbrush

thicket

noun
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. 

  • A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. 

  • The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. 

underbrush

noun
  • The small trees and other plants that clutter the floor of a forest. 

verb
  • To clear (an area) of underbrush. 

  • To work among the underbrush. 

How often have the words thicket and underbrush occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )