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Meanings of understorey in anglès

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Layer of plant life growing above the shrub layer and below the canopy.

        sotabosc
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        Examples for "undergrowth"
        Examples for "undergrowth"
        1
        Despite the undergrowth and young trees, he tore along, making good progress.
        Nano
        2
        Ignoring my daughter's question, I picked my way through roots and undergrowth.
        Bare Bones
        3
        The division of Jackson seemed almost lost in the forest and undergrowth.
        The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide
        4
        In all directions it looked the same; straight towering trunks, saplings, undergrowth.
        Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
        5
        Holman crept quietly toward the campfire, and I waited in the undergrowth.
        The White Waterfall
        1
        Suddenly the two men were rolling over and over in the underbrush.
        The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, and Other Stories
        2
        In the near-by woods the underbrush has been cleared out and destroyed.
        Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization
        3
        Another bird made itself heard somewhere in the underbrush flanking the brook.
        The Rise of David Levinsky
        4
        In the underbrush near him, the boy became aware of fluttering noise.
        The Best Short Stories of 1915, and the Yearbook of the American...
        5
        Then I heard a crashing of underbrush from far across the plain.
        Promise of the wolves: a novel
        1
        These monocultures also create poor diversity in the understory and produce dry fruit.
        BBC
        2
        There is now an eight-decade gap in this old forest's understory.
        The world without us
        3
        Then came water-clear downfalls that quickly covered the understory, crackled and snapped beneath every footstep.
        Serena
        4
        It's a small, insect-eating bat that hunts within the vegetation of the dense rainforest understory.
        Wired
        5
        Cypresses, boxwoods, and flowering shrubs formed a wet understory.
        Devil Bones
        Usage of understorey in anglès
        1
        Hazel, holly and yew are the understorey trees beneath soaring beeches and magnificent Douglas firs.
        The Guardian
        2
        The trampling of human feet made most suburban woodlands I knew barren, but here the understorey was thick with life.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Unlike a possum, they can't climb up the tree so they're eating the seedlings and smaller saplings in the understorey, he said.
        Radio NZ
        4
        Around us a soft breeze, its understorey laced with a tang of salt and seaweed, beneath a sweeter overtone of thrift, or sea pinks.
        The Irish Times
        5
        These pests and predators have destroyed the canopy and understorey of the ngahere, and attacked threatened species to the point of local extinction, she said.
        Radio NZ
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for understorey
        català
        sotabosc
        Understorey through the time