undergrowth
/ˈʌndɚˌɡɹoʊθ/ noun C2- The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes). · tangled undergrowth· clear the undergrowth
Plural undergrowths
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Below the garden a green field lush with clover sloped down to the hollow where the brook ran and where scores of white birches grew, upspringing airily out of an undergrowth suggestive of delightful possibilities in ferns and mosses and woodsy things generally.
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