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UNDERGROWTH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Synonyms:
underbrush; undergrowth; underwood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("undergrowth" is a kind of...):
brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "undergrowth"):
ground cover; groundcover (small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor)
Holonyms ("undergrowth" is a member of...):
forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)
