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• He opened a path through the undergrowth.From the entry open
• The guide blazed his way through the undergrowth.From the entry blaze
• A covey of quail flushed from the undergrowth.From the entry flush
• He chopped his way through the undergrowth.From the entry one's way
• A movement in the umbrageous undergrowth betrays the presence of something leaping from the ferns.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 52. From the entry umbrageous
• That triangle of tangled undergrowth was infested with clothes-grabbing burdocks (“buzzies” we called them) and beggar's ticks.2015, Jim Bennet, South End Boy: Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s, →ISBN. From the entry buzzie
• Beyond was a tangle of undergrowth fringing a pocket of rainforest.2004, Wendy Jane Evans, The Diggings Are Silent, Interactive Press, →ISBN, page 77. From the entry wuffle
• He clearly has no time for mythological adventures: no Pan or Narcissus peeks out of the undergrowth.1999, Wendy Beckett, Patricia Wright, Sister Wendy's one thousand masterpieces. From the entry fabledom
• The mud crusts underfoot, remugient beasts stir up the undergrowth, Johnson attracts flies: greenflies, blowflies, blackflies, crutflies.1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 96. From the entry remugient
• Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.1964, William Golding, Lord of the Flies. From the entry creeper
• Hacking my way through the undergrowth, following the little beam of my headstrap light, I fought my way forward.2017, Joe R. Lansdale, Devil Red. From the entry headstrap
• The bare teats of the human females bored out from this two-dimensional undergrowth like the barrels of lactifluous guns.1997, Will Self, Great Apes, A&C Black, published 2011, page 385. From the entry lactifluous
• We had just changed On another patrol Kinyua indicated that he could hear something in the undergrowth ahead.1996, Derek Peter Franklin, A Pied Cloak: Memoirs of a Colonial Police Officer (Special Branch). From the entry at the high port
• “Wait a minute!” The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.1954, William Golding, chapter 1, in Lord of the Flies, Penguin. From the entry scar
• Discourage overraking around cabins and camp areas as this will destroy natural undergrowth, causing erosion and excessive dust.1952, United States. Soil Conservation Service, Conservation in Camping, page 8. From the entry overrake
• Specimens of the aptly named devil’s fingers and the coral-like hazel gloves were spotted nestling in the undergrowth at Devon Wildlife Trust sites.2014 December 20, “Two rare fungi found on Devon wildlife sites”, in The Western Morning News, Plymouth, England, page 4. From the entry devil's fingers
• Indris are known for their calls, some of which are truly eerie and can be heard for miles in the dense undergrowth.2011, William Powell, Ochan Kusuma-Powell, “Knowing Our Collegial Relations”, in How to Teach Now: Five Keys to Personalized Learning in…. From the entry indri
• Traditional hedge laying involves, first, clearing away undergrowth and weeds, particularly from a hedge that has been neglected and allowed to grow tall.2007, Holly Kerr Forsyth, “Hedges”, in The Constant Gardener: A Botanical Bible, Carlton, Vic.: The Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University…. From the entry pleach
• A loud series of descending whistles from the dark shadows was an ivory-billed woodhewer; and an explosive song in the undergrowth, a gray-breasted wood wren.1955, Roger Tory Peterson, James Fisher, Wild America, →ISBN. From the entry woodhewer
• The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.1954, William Golding, chapter 3, in Lord of the Flies, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry festoon
• There where you see light-green rushes instead of dark-green undergrowth, there between the great cotton woods, that is my private gate into the unknown.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry cottonwood
• The Grey Bower has woodwork of white, with grey walls decorated with a bowerland of rose and fuchsia, and having an undergrowth of blue-bells.1905, The Studio, volume 36, numbers 151-154, page 120. From the entry bowerland
• Lawyer Vine (Calamus muelleri), also known as Hairy Mary and Wait-a-while, is actually a palm, that grows in long canes that loop and snake through the undergrowth.2014, Germaine Greer, White Beech: The Rainforest Years, page 171. From the entry lawyer
• The traveler very easily failed to notice one among the normal bushes and undergrowth, and the moment he was in range the venomous sting would slash out.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 43. From the entry uncannily
• It meant billhooking and chopping excessive undergrowth from the woods on the sandy ridges around Kuhmo and living in a tent with an ever more faithful, almost full- grown hare.2010, Arto Paasilinna, The Year of the Hare: A Novel. From the entry billhook

Meaning of undergrowth

1. noun The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).

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Questions about undergrowth in a sentence

How do you use undergrowth in a sentence?

Undergrowth is used as a noun. For example: “The hikers pushed through thick undergrowth.”

What is a short sentence with undergrowth?

“clear the undergrowth”

What does undergrowth mean?

Undergrowth means the plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).