Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Shrubs and small trees growing beneath taller trees; underbrush.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
Examples
“Landfill ill say it again, carrie underwood is so hot.”
“omg carrie underwood is playing it, I GOTSTA HAVE IT" am i alone here or do others feel this way!!?”
“It is this kind of underwood which is called mâquis.”
“I can hardly believe the spring is here, and the garden hurrying on its green and flowered petticoat -- only its petticoat as yet, for though the underwood is a fairyland of tender little leaves, the trees above are still quite bare.”
“Madame Arnoux, Rosanette, and Frederick Moreau, the Orleanist carnival, and the "underwood" of Fontainebleau.”
“The two Indians fell sullenly to the task of gathering dead branches and underwood.”
“Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.”
“But a quarter-mile beyond the river, he said, the troops “came into an open wood free from underwood with some gradual riseings, this wood was so open that carriages could have been drove in any part of it.””
“Yes | No | Report from bomberpride wrote 50 weeks 1 day ago im carrie underwood taylor swift and reba all rolled into one”
“Report this comment i'd definitely take carrie underwood over taylor swift any day!”
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Lists
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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chained_bear One of my favorite usages of this term is what an old Hollywood mogul called screenwriters: "schmucks with Underwoods." But there's a quite different usage on consuetudo. Mar 18, 2008