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

The trees on these banks are large, chiefly the two species of Beech before-mentioned, and Winter's-bark; there are besides many shrubs, and an impenetrable underwood of Arbutus, Berberis, and currant bushes.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert

It was a rusty, damp-stained door, once painted green, and masked by trees somewhat higher than the underwood through which they had climbed.

From The Great House by Weyman, Stanley John

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.