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underwoods

underwoods is the plural of underwood.

Meaning of underwood

Noun

underwood (countable and uncountable, plural underwoods)

  1. Underbrush, undergrowth.
    • What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is to the Trees I have already hinted; and yet in Copses where they stand warm, and so thickn’d with the under wood, as this culture cannot be practis’d, they prove in time to be goodly Trees.1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17

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Noun capitalized: Underwoods

Underwoods

  1. (plural) plural of Underwood

Questions about underwoods

What is underwoods the plural of?
Underwoods is the plural of underwood.
What part of speech is underwoods?
Underwoods is a noun.

Words near underwoods in the dictionary

  1. underwomaned
  2. underwomanned
  3. underwood
  4. Underwood's septa
  5. underwooded
  6. underwoods
  7. underwool
  8. underwools
  9. underword
  10. underwords
  11. underwork

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