| 单词 | undergrowth |
| 释义 | undergrowth (once / 2277 pages) n The plants that grow on a forest floor, including shrubs and small trees, are called undergrowth. If you leave a marked hiking trail in the woods, you might have a hard time getting through the undergrowth. You won't find a lot of undergrowth in a North American forest in the winter — most ferns and other plants die back, and many shrubs and trees lose their leaves. In the summertime, however, undergrowth can be thick and dense under the taller, older trees. This noun dates from the 1600s, a combination of under, "beneath or below," and growth, "something that has grown." WORD FAMILYundergrowth: undergrowths+/grow: grew, grower, growing, grows, growth, overgrow, regrow, undergrow/grower: growers/growing: growingly, growings, ingrowing/growth: growths, ingrowth, overgrowth, undergrowth/ingrowth: ingrowths/overgrow: overgrew, overgrowed, overgrowing, overgrows/overgrowth: overgrowths/regrow: regrowing, regrows/undergrow: undergrowed USAGE EXAMPLESIt was called off after dark and resumed the next morning, when Margaret's naked body was found in heavy undergrowth. BBC(Dec 17, 2016) Volunteers monitoring nests near Lovers Beach on Nevis had found the green sea turtle hatchlings in undergrowth. BBC(Nov 23, 2016) Leaves, fallen branches and dried undergrowth have turned the forest floors into tinderboxes. Washington Times(Nov 23, 2016) n the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest Syn|Hypo|Hyper underbrush, underwood ground cover, groundcover small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket a dense growth of bushes |
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