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Noun: understory
Usage: non-standard
  1. Smaller vegetation growing underneath a forest canopy
    "It is a mixed forest of tall and medium height trees with a thick understory of tangled shrubs and grasses";
    - understorey

Derived forms: understories

Encyclopedia: Understory

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