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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 places where there was much underwood, very thick stems of rhododendron, often from ten to twenty feet high, formed an intricate, impenetrable thicket.

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

They are thickly covered with high timber and much underwood, and from their summits there is a fine prospect over the whole of the surrounding hilly country.

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

It was like the fire that smoulders among the underwood before it catches flame; it spreads the more rapidly afterwards.

From Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature by Bardsley, Charles W.




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