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underwood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun underwood has 1 sense
- underwood(n = noun.group) underbrush, undergrowth - the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest; Array is a kind of brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
is a member of forest, wood, woods
has particulars: ground cover, groundcover
CIDE DICTIONARY
underwood, n.
Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural. [1913 Webster]
"Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars."
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ROGET THESAURUS
underwood
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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