The meaning of Undergrowth

noun

A prickly scrambling shrub of the rose family, especially a blackberry.

Usage examples:

Gone were the blossoms of blackthorns, brambles, sweet roses, violets, and pungent garlics.

verb

Gather blackberries.

Usage examples:

Why don't we go brambling some day?

noun

An implement with a handle and a block of bristles, hair, or wire, used especially for cleaning, applying a liquid or powder to a surface, or arranging the hair.

Usage examples:

A shaving brush

verb

Remove (dust or dirt) by sweeping or scrubbing.

Usage examples:

We'll be able to brush the mud off easily

noun

Undergrowth, small trees, and shrubs.

Usage examples:

Trees and brush alongside the fields and channels are home to birds and other wildlife

noun

Undergrowth, twigs, and small branches.

Usage examples:

Its name is thought to mean the rough ground covered with brushwood and undergrowth.

noun

Small branches that have broken off from trees and bushes

noun

A shrub or clump of shrubs with stems of moderate length.

Usage examples:

A rose bush

verb

Spread out into a thick clump.

Usage examples:

Her hair bushed out like a halo

noun

A metal lining for a round hole, especially one in which an axle revolves.

Usage examples:

A very communicative one too thanks those urethane bushes and the back axle bouncing up and down ju…

noun

An area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber.

Usage examples:

Coppices of oak were cultivated

verb

Cut back (a tree or shrub) to ground level periodically to stimulate growth.

Usage examples:

The company began to coppice the woodland for conservation purposes

noun

An area of closely planted trees in which the trees are cut back regularly to provide wood

Usage examples:

A hazel/willow coppice

noun

A small group of trees.

Usage examples:

As one approaches the copse of trees at the entrance to tobernalt, one usually stands still by a la…

noun

A small group of trees

verb

Put something on top of or in front of (something), especially in order to protect or conceal it.

Usage examples:

The table had been covered with a checked tablecloth

noun

A thing which lies on, over, or around something, especially in order to protect or conceal it.

Usage examples:

A seat cover

verb

To put or spread something over something, or to lie on the surface of something

Usage examples:

Once the rice comes to a boil, turn down the flame and cover the pot., she covered the child with a…

adjective

Not openly acknowledged or displayed.

Usage examples:

Covert operations against the dictatorship

noun

A thicket in which game can hide.

Usage examples:

I couldn't help but admire the beautifully laid out game crops and newly-planted coverts.

adjective

Hidden or secret

Usage examples:

Covert military operations

noun

Green foliage, growing plants, or vegetation.

Usage examples:

The new practice will be built around a glass central courtyard, which will be planted with shrubs …

noun

Green plants, or branches that have been cut off from plants, esp. when used as decoration

noun

An area of land overgrown with dense forest and tangled vegetation, typically in the tropics.

Usage examples:

We set off into the jungle

noun

A forest in one of the hottest regions of the earth, where trees and plants grow very close together

noun

A living organism of the kind exemplified by trees, shrubs, herbs, grasses, ferns, and mosses, typically growing in a permanent site, absorbing water and inorganic substances through its roots, and synthesizing nutrients in its leaves by photosynthesis using the green pigment chlorophyll.

Usage examples:

Eventually, it melts to supply water and nutrients to plants and aquatic organisms.

verb

Put (a seed, bulb, or plant) in the ground so that it can grow.

Usage examples:

We planted a lot of fruit trees

noun

A living thing that usually produces seeds and typically has a stem, leaves, roots, and sometimes flowers

Usage examples:

We brought a house plant as a gift when we spent the weekend with our friend sylvia., a manufacturi…

verb

Rub (someone or something) hard so as to clean them, typically with a brush and water.

Usage examples:

He had to scrub the floor

noun

An act of scrubbing something or someone.

Usage examples:

Give the floor a good scrub

noun

Vegetation consisting mainly of brushwood or stunted forest growth.

Usage examples:

A desert plain dotted with scrub

noun

An area in a garden planted with shrubs.

Usage examples:

The developers have included water features, seating area and shrubberies in the landscaped gardens…

noun

Low-growing plants considered as a group, or an arrangement of such plants in a garden

noun

A dense group of bushes or trees.

Usage examples:

A horned owl perfectly camouflaged in a dense thicket

noun

An area of trees and bushes growing closely together

noun

Shrubs and small trees forming the undergrowth in a forest.

Usage examples:

John and alissa walked in silence through the dense trees and underbrush of the forest.

noun

A mass of bushes, small trees, and plants growing under the trees in woods or a forest

noun

Undergrowth, especially in a forest.

Usage examples:

The underscrub was wiregrass and small rushes

verb

Remove undergrowth from (a forest).

Usage examples:

In the alton valley, 227 acres of the forest were underscrubbed manually

noun

Small trees and shrubs growing beneath taller timber trees.

Usage examples:

The second crop was of underwood and coppice

noun

Plants considered collectively, especially those found in a particular area or habitat.

Usage examples:

The chalk cliffs are mainly sheer with little vegetation

noun

Plants in general, or the plants that are found in a particular area

noun

Short for widow's weeds.

verb

A wild plant growing where it is not wanted and in competition with cultivated plants.

Usage examples:

Keep the seedlings clear of weeds

noun

Any wild plant that grows in a garden or field where it is not wanted

Usage examples:

My garden is overrun with weeds., [ i ] i weeded all afternoon.

noun

The hard fibrous material that forms the main substance of the trunk or branches of a tree or shrub, used for fuel or timber.

Usage examples:

A block of wood

noun

A hard substance that forms the branches and trunks of trees and can be used as a building material, for making things, or as a fuel

Usage examples:

He gathered some wood to build a fire., she attached a couple of planks of wood to the wall for she…

noun

A type of golf club (= long, thin stick) with a rounded wooden end, used for hitting the ball over long distances

Usage examples:

He likes to use a number 2 wood to tee off.