underwood

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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

The forest has underwood of 34 various kinds, where numbers of interesting plants attracted our attention.

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

In some places the trees grew closely together, with a thick underwood, which shut-in the path on both sides, and through which the road had been partially cleared by the 33d.

From March to Magdala by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

It is covered down to the water with thick sedges and underwood, and where the water is stagnating, generates mosquitoes and fevers.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter