undergrowth
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During the wet spring, she said, undergrowth flourished, leaving an enormous layer of tinder once heat waves took hold in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
They may be less wild about another policy Resco de Dios favors: keeping undergrowth in check with more controlled burning, including in protected forests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
He was surrounded by the soldiers again, who found him hiding in the undergrowth, the head of the military explained.
From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026
This ability allows Balanophora to spread quickly into the narrow ecological niche it prefers: dark, moist forest undergrowth where few other plants can survive.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 20, 2025
There was a sound of undergrowth being disturbed—a click of breaking branches, a weighty pushing through low foliage—and then a kind of large, vaguely irritable snuffling noise.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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