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

To the north and north-west of Bethlehem the woods consist of oaks without any underwood, the cattle having their pasture there.

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

He knew, however, that her strength would not hold out, and at the first sound of pursuit he alighted in a coppice, drove on the horses, and crept away with her through the underwood.

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.

At length, however, as they crossed a small hill covered with trees there was a rustling among the underwood, and they heard the grunt of some animal.

From The War Tiger Or, Adventures and Wonderful Fortunes of the Young Sea Chief and His Lad Chow: A Tale of the Conquest of China by Dalton, William