Undergrowth (Noun)
Meaning
The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The undergrowth was so dense it made walking through the forest extremely difficult.
- Small mammals scurried for cover as we made our way through the dense undergrowth of the woods.
- Over the years the undergrowth in the old woodland had grown thick with thorny brambles and shrubs.
- She waded carefully through the undergrowth trying not to trip on the twisted roots.
- A few ferns struggled to reach sunlight in the shade of the tall trees where undergrowth dominated the forest floor.