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underwood

[uhn-der-wood] / ˈʌn dərˌwʊd /






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"Carrie underwood being an antimasker is just sad," wrote another.

From Fox News • Aug. 18, 2021

“The natural underwood has been grubbed up,” Olmsted wrote at the time, “the trees, to a height of 10 to 15 feet, trimmed to bare poles.”

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2016

In the sunshine lay a gorgeous plain, sparkling with verdant forests and dewy underwood.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig

Here, too, with very little trouble, a supply of water may be got from the many streams that make their way through the underwood which skirts the cove.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert

The abundance of these flowers gives to the underwood a lively tint, which strikes the eye at a distance.

From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp




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