English noun: underwood | |||
1. | underwood (group) the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest | ||
Synonyms | underbrush, undergrowth | ||
Broader (hypernym) | brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | ground cover, groundcover | ||
Member meronym | forest, wood, woods | ||