Definitions for underwoodˈʌn dərˌwʊd

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

un•der•woodˈʌn dərˌwʊd(n.)

  1. woody shrubs or small trees growing among taller trees.

    Category: Botany

Origin of underwood:

1275–1325

un′der•wood`ed(adj.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. underbrush, undergrowth, underwood(noun)

    the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

Wiktionary

  1. underwood(Noun)

    underbrush, undergrowth

  2. Underwood(Noun)

    A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.

  3. Origin: The surname is sometimes habitational, used by someone who lived in any of several places of the same name. Otherwise it is topographic, referring to someone who lived near a wood. In both cases the name is from England or Scotland, and from .

Webster Dictionary

  1. Underwood(noun)

    small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural


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