Undergrowth

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  • noun. Shrubs, saplings, and herbaceous plants growing beneath trees in a forest.
  • noun. The condition of being less than fully grown.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Short, fine under-hair on a skin.
  • noun. Specifically, in forestry, the ground-cover, underbrush, and young trees below the large sapling stage.
  • noun. That which grows under; especially, shrubs or small trees growing beneath or among large ones.
  • noun. The state or condition of being undergrown.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
    • Word Usage
    "All the undergrowth is scorched brown and black by the cold."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brush  brushwood  coppice  copse  thicket  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    groundcover  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    alder  bough  bramble  brush  bush  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    underbrush  
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