undergrowth English

Meaning undergrowth meaning

What does undergrowth mean?

Definitions in simple English

undergrowth Noun

— Undergrowth is smaller plants growing in a forest: bushes, which are smaller than the trees and which grow under the trees. She couldn't walk very fast in this forest, because she had to push through the undergrowth.

undergrowth

— noun (= underbrush) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

Synonyms undergrowth synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as undergrowth?

undergrowth English » English

underbrush

underwood

brushwood

thicket

shrub layer

scrub

brush

feather-grass

weeds beneath a tree

vegetables

vegetable

understorey

stunted

spinney

shrubbery

herbs

grass

forest floor vegetation

dystrophy

coppice

Topics undergrowth topics

What do people use undergrowth to talk about?

Universe, creation World Land

Forest, grassland, desert

• What are the parts of a forest?
  forest canopy forest floor underbrush undergrowth edge (of the forest) deep in the forest backwoods timberland

Universe, creation

Plant

• What words refer to a group of plants?
  bale bouquet bracken brush bunch canopy clump cluster cover covert corsage crop culture forest greenery grove growth hassock haystack herbage jungle kelp nosegay orchard scrub sheaf shock shrubbery skein spray stand sward thicket tuft turf tussock underbrush undergrowth vegetation verdure vermin