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

A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

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

As we slowly wended our way up this mighty stream we found the shores adorned with flowers, and covered with cane-brake and thick underwood.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.