HyperDic: underwood

English > 1 sense of the word *underwood*:
NOUN	group	underwood, underbrush, undergrowth	the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest / forest

underwood > pronunciation
Sounds	ah'nderwuh.d
Rhymes	adulthood ... wormwood: 60 rhymes with uhd...

English > *underwood*: 1 sense > noun 1, group
Meaning	The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest / forest.
Synonyms	underbrush, undergrowth
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