Undergrowth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Low-growing plants, saplings, and shrubs beneath trees in a forest.
  • n. A growth of short, fine hairs underlying the longer and thicker outer hairs of an animal's coat; underfur or underwool.
  • n. The condition of being less than fully grown.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Short, fine under-hair on a skin.
  • n. Specifically, in forestry, the ground-cover, underbrush, and young trees below the large sapling stage.
  • n. That which grows under; especially, shrubs or small trees growing beneath or among large ones.
  • n. The state or condition of being undergrown.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    thicket    copse    coppice    brush    brushwood   
    Hyponym
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    underbrush   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    underbrush    shrubbery    thicket    vegetation    shrub    bramble    creeper    scrub    herbage    greenery