understory

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The understory of the ponderosa and sugar pine forest was speckled with manzanita, oak trees and dogwoods with yellow leaves, marking the start of fall.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2024

These birds, Pollock reasoned, might have more tolerance to temperature fluctuations than their understory counterparts.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2024

You can use these in mixed plantings under your conifers or group a bunch together to form a hedge or thick understory.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2023

Coffee is an understory plant: It grows best under a canopy of shade-providing trees.

From Salon • Oct. 23, 2023

I pull Alice across the clearing into the shelter of the forest understory.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George