Noun: undergrowth 'ún-du(r),growth
- The brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest
"a path hewn through the undergrowth";
- underbrush [N. Amer], underwood
Derived forms: undergrowths
Type of: brush, brushwood, coppice, copse, thicket
Encyclopedia: Undergrowth