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Despite the undergrowth and young trees, he tore along, making good progress.
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Ignoring my daughter's question, I picked my way through roots and undergrowth.
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The division of Jackson seemed almost lost in the forest and undergrowth.
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In all directions it looked the same; straight towering trunks, saplings, undergrowth.
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Holman crept quietly toward the campfire, and I waited in the undergrowth.
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Suddenly the two men were rolling over and over in the underbrush.
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In the near-by woods the underbrush has been cleared out and destroyed.
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Another bird made itself heard somewhere in the underbrush flanking the brook.
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In the underbrush near him, the boy became aware of fluttering noise.
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Then I heard a crashing of underbrush from far across the plain.
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These monocultures also create poor diversity in the understory and produce dry fruit.
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There is now an eight-decade gap in this old forest's understory.
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Then came water-clear downfalls that quickly covered the understory, crackled and snapped beneath every footstep.
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It's a small, insect-eating bat that hunts within the vegetation of the dense rainforest understory.
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Cypresses, boxwoods, and flowering shrubs formed a wet understory.
Usage of understorey in English
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Hazel, holly and yew are the understorey trees beneath soaring beeches and magnificent Douglas firs.
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The trampling of human feet made most suburban woodlands I knew barren, but here the understorey was thick with life.
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Unlike a possum, they can't climb up the tree so they're eating the seedlings and smaller saplings in the understorey, he said.
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Around us a soft breeze, its understorey laced with a tang of salt and seaweed, beneath a sweeter overtone of thrift, or sea pinks.
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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.