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- noun Plural form of
underleaf .
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Examples
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Later we strewed the rough floor with the dead, nearly dry underleaves of the tussock – grass, so as to form a slightly soft bed for our sleeping – bags.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
Ulysses 2003
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Later we strewed the rough floor with the dead, nearly dry underleaves of the tussock-grass, so as to form a slightly soft bed for our sleeping-bags.
The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001
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The lychgate of a field showed Father Conmee breadths of cabbages, curtseying to him with ample underleaves.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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