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Definition of underwood in English: underwoodnounˈʌndəwʊdˈəndərˌwʊd mass nounSmall trees and shrubs growing beneath taller timber trees. the second crop was of underwood and coppice they sell underwood belonging to the Crown Example sentencesExamples - I, too, felt as if I was peering into a coppice - a wood or thicket characterized by a dense, often tangled, underwood of stump shoots and suckers encouraged into being by the periodic cutting down of trees.
- From the Forest of Dean the king took minerals, underwood, timber, and red and fallow deer.
Synonyms shrubbery, vegetation, greenery, ground cover, copsewood, brushwood, brush, scrub, underscrub, cover, covert, thicket, copse, coppice, wood, jungle
Definition of underwood in US English: underwoodnounˈəndərˌwʊdˈəndərˌwo͝od Small trees and shrubs growing beneath taller timber trees. they sell underwood belonging to the Crown Example sentencesExamples - I, too, felt as if I was peering into a coppice - a wood or thicket characterized by a dense, often tangled, underwood of stump shoots and suckers encouraged into being by the periodic cutting down of trees.
- From the Forest of Dean the king took minerals, underwood, timber, and red and fallow deer.
Synonyms shrubbery, vegetation, greenery, ground cover, copsewood, brushwood, brush, scrub, underscrub, cover, covert, thicket, copse, coppice, wood, jungle
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