UNDERWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does underwood mean? 

• UNDERWOOD (noun)
  The noun UNDERWOOD has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: UNDERWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

underbrush; undergrowth; underwood

Hypernyms ("underwood" is a kind of...):

brush; brushwood; coppice; copse; thicket (a dense growth of bushes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "underwood"):

ground cover; groundcover (small plants other than saplings growing on a forest floor)

Holonyms ("underwood" is a member of...):

forest; wood; woods (the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area)

 Context examples 

The next, there was a crash in the underwood and our dreadful visitor was gone.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Accordingly I hid myself in some thick underwood, determining to devote the ensuing hours to reflection on my situation.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The third rose nearly two hundred feet into the air above a clump of underwood—a giant of a vegetable, with a red column as big as a cottage, and a wide shadow around in which a company could have manoeuvred.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a beautiful evening; the last rays of the setting sun shone bright through the long stems of the trees upon the green underwood beneath, and the turtle-doves sang from the tall birches.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Doff, dog, doff, he hissed, when a monarch deigns to lower his eyes to such as you!—then spurred through the underwood and was gone, with a gleam of steel shoes and flutter of dead leaves.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Right below it there was an exceedingly small hollow of green turf, hidden by banks and a thick underwood about knee-deep, that grew there very plentifully; and in the centre of the dell, sure enough, a little tent of goat-skins, like what the gipsies carry about with them in England.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Alleyne was still gazing after them, listening to the loud Hyke-a-Bayard! Hyke-a-Pomers! Hyke-a-Lebryt! with which they called upon their favorite hounds, when a group of horsemen crashed out through the underwood at the very spot where the serf and he were standing.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)