underwood
Collocations
3ADJ.
thick
UNDERWOOD + NOUN
sons
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
Underbrush, undergrowth.
1670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17, 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.
[…] the Country near the Sea-side, and some few Miles further is full of short Under-wood, and thorny Shrubs, which tore our Cloaths to Rags […]
noun
A typewriter made by the Underwood Typewriter Company.
name
A surname from Middle English.
A suburb of Plympton, City of Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX5356).
A village in Selston parish, Ashfield district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK4750).
A settlement in Bishton community, City of Newport, Wales (OS grid ref ST3889).
A hamlet in Hook community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9812).
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing be
- underbrush
- undergrowth
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
41670, John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, London, Chapter 3, Of the Oak, pp. 16-17, What improvement the stirring of the ground about the roots of Oaks is
Wiktionary[…] the Country near the Sea-side, and some few Miles further is full of short Under-wood, and thorny Shrubs, which tore our Cloaths to Rags […]
Wiktionary‘Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.’
Wiktionary"You remember the hat beside the dead man?" "Yes," said Holmes; "by John Underwood and Sons, 129, Camberwell Road."
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