The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest.
1 The principal underwood in the mountain districts of Ceylon is the 'nillho.'
2 He assisted her through the marginal underwood and down to the stones.
3 Then, the glade passed, the underwood thickened again, and became almost impenetrable.
4 The underwood was full of bluebells, but her eyes were not blue.
5 Heavily timbered land and impenetrable underwood are not so much resorted to.
6 Sometimes a stream ran through the underwood , which they crossed without difficulty.
7 The forest is extremely thick, but there is little or no underwood .
8 The trees on the bank were not large but the underwood was thick.
9 Growler at once bounded over the low wall and dived into the underwood .
10 A blackbird bugled cheerily in the underwood , and Ellington felt a strange thrill.
11 We advanced with great caution, keeping in the underwood as much as possible.
12 The little party a second time ventured through the dense underwood .
13 At the first the ground was unusually rough and rocky, with thick underwood .
14 There is not enough underwood for a horseman to hide in.
15 He ran toward her-burstthrough the underwood , and gained the inclosure.
16 At that instant I saw a huge creature creeping along through the underwood .
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