undergrowth
noun
un·der·growth
ˈən-dər-ˌgrōth 
: low growth on the floor of a forest including seedlings and saplings, shrubs, and herbs
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Birds cartwheeled around me, flitting from trees to undergrowth, sometimes close enough to touch.
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Brian Mann, NPR, 15 June 2024
The shoots of spring’s entangling undergrowth are emerging from the muck, all around the tents and discarded bicycles and shopping carts and needles and debris.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
There was a lingering smell of smoke from the traditional Indigenous land management practice of burning native savanna early in the dry season using small fires, lit in mosaic patterns to avoid the buildup of highly flammable undergrowth.
—Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
North Sentinel Island is roughly twenty square miles, a hilly landscape featuring huge trees of tropical hardwood that create a parklike environment, their shade discouraging dense undergrowth.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
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Brian Mann, NPR, 15 June 2024
The shoots of spring’s entangling undergrowth are emerging from the muck, all around the tents and discarded bicycles and shopping carts and needles and debris.
—Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 19 May 2024
There was a lingering smell of smoke from the traditional Indigenous land management practice of burning native savanna early in the dry season using small fires, lit in mosaic patterns to avoid the buildup of highly flammable undergrowth.
—Drew Kluska, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
North Sentinel Island is roughly twenty square miles, a hilly landscape featuring huge trees of tropical hardwood that create a parklike environment, their shade discouraging dense undergrowth.
—Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
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undergrowth
noun
un·der·growth
ˈən-dər-ˌgrōth
: low growth on the floor of a forest including seedlings and saplings, shrubs, and herbs
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