NOUN | group | undergrowth, underbrush, underwood | the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest / forest |
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Sounds | ah'ndergrow.th | |
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Rhymes | both ... troth: 10 rhymes with owth... |
Meaning | The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest / forest. | |
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Synonyms | underbrush, underwood | |
Member of | forest, wood, woods | The trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area |
Narrower | groundcover, ground cover | small plants other than saplings growing on a forest / forest floor |
Broader | brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket | A dense growth of bushes |
Spanish | maleza, sotobosque | |
Catalan | sotabosc |
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