(n.) That which grows under trees; specifically, shrubs or small trees growing among large trees.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three patients in each of the families had an undergrowth of the left side of the body when compared with the normal right side.
(2) quinquefasciatus rafts were found in a wooded area (32.4%) with a dense undergrowth than in a more open area (67.6%), but Cx.
(3) So I decided to literally track him down, the same way I would track an animal: from muddy footprints, to wet footprints, reading any clue I could in the undergrowth.
(4) It’s after that notice something missing in the rainforest-like landscape: undergrowth.
(5) As a result, they presented such symptoms as abnormality in the vane of remiges, undergrowth, anemia, and leg paralysis.
(6) A small hollow will suddenly open up in the undergrowth to reveal a huddle of a dozen Afghans – often waiting till nightfall before making for Hungary.
(7) The five-day hearing has fought its way through the dense undergrowth of overlapping clauses and subsections of Ripa.
(8) At first, the muscle forms a two-dimensional network which ultimately detaches from the Saran membrane allowing an undergrowth of fibroblasts so that these connective tissue cells completely surround groups of muscle fibers.
(9) The way he used the undergrowths to suit himself – things being soaked in water and so on – was a way of looking at nature that no one had really done before."
(10) In a rainforest the seeds fall off the trees and new plants grow and, as long as humans aren’t trampling all over it, there is a green, leafy undergrowth around the taller trees.
(11) He was so pleased with his attack on the BBC here that a few months later he decided to sink his teeth into another of those sinister forces that lurks in the undergrowth of our national life.
(12) While occasionally a sound was heard when the snails landed, most snails had soft landings in the undergrowth and long grass of the wasteland [into which they were thrown]."
(13) These digits, with growth, display several complications such as enlargement, deviation, angulation, loss of motion, and undergrowth.
(14) In person he's quite offhand, an odd mixture of shy and intensely self-assured, and with his stocky build and salt-and-pepper beard he conveys the impression of a very clever badger, burrowing away in the undergrowth of economic detail, ready to give quite a sharp bite if you get in his way.
(15) Kenneth Franklin Shinzato, a former marine who works at the US air force’s Kadena airbase, told police he had strangled Rina Shimabukuro, a 20-year-old woman whose body was found in undergrowth on Thursday, according to Kyodo news.
(16) Lumbering out from their daytime retreat in the thick undergrowth, with a heavy grace that can only come with weighing upwards of 100kg, a female is wooed by two younger members of the group, cheerfully at first.
(17) In spite of the obvious biological differences between the avian embryo and the human fetus, the present evidence supports the hypothesis that prenatal interruption of the amniotic fluid transit contributes to fetal undergrowth in IA.
(18) From pumps dripping oil and huge ponds of black sludge to dying trees and undergrowth — a likely sign of an underground pipeline leak — these spills are relatively small and rarely garner media attention.
(19) Miliband will return to his first critique of the industry, aided by Gregg McClymont, his astute pensions shadow minister, who has relentlessly dogged Steve Webb through the labyrinthine pensions undergrowth.
(20) Well, almost: there is still a rusting section of railway stretching through the undergrowth, leading nowhere.
Underwood
Definition:
(n.) Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is what inspired Jon Underwood to create the non-profit death cafe in 2011, based on the Swiss Cafe Mortel movement.
(2) In another, Underwood and his aide are monitoring police communications from his office – and laid out on their desk are no fewer than nine iPhones and iPads.
(3) He's suspected of killing 69-year-old physician William Lewis Corporon and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, outside the community center of Greater Kansas City.
(4) Cowell's contract will expire after the ninth run of the top-rating American Idol, which has made household names of contestants including Carrie Underwood and Kelly Clarkson, with an American version of X Factor due to air in time for the 2011 season.
(5) Email from Jack Underwood: It seems like Luck audibles on every single down.
(6) In spite of considerable reasearch over many years in the field of automatic speech recognition (Underwood, 1977), practical devices capable of recognising unrestricted speech remain as science fiction rather than fact.
(7) "Aso's refusal to acknowledge his family's use of slave labour proves just how out of step Japan is with the global trend towards recognising historical wrongs and making reparations," William Underwood, an expert on forced labour in wartime Japan, told the Guardian.
(8) Through what Underwood refers to as the "outsourcing of death", and through this lack of exposure to it, we have become ill-equipped to deal with it – and in denial of the one thing that affects us all.
(9) After centrifugation the clear supernatant was used directly in the IGF-I RIA (Van Wyk and Underwood antibody) and in a human placental membrane RRA for IGF-II.
(10) In the UK, the fictional Underwood gave his views on the EU referendum in the Times in a piece that appeared to be written by Dobbs, who is campaigning for Brexit.
(11) ;) February 14, 2014 ( This is probably what Underwood is referring to in the tweet above.
(12) Miller is accused of killing Dr William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, who were at the community centre in Leawood for a singing contest audition.
(13) His approval ratings are even lower than his morals, and the satirist Stephen Colbert (playing himself) is ridiculing Underwood’s “America Works” plan to increase jobs but reduce welfare benefits.
(14) Frank Underwood, he’s a sort of latter-day Iago isn’t he?
(15) We understand you’re a fan of both Danish noir and House of Cards – so who’s the most effective national leader: Birgitte Nyborg in Borgen or Frank Underwood?
(16) With nine Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe – for Robin Wright 's portrayal of Underwood's equally devious wife, Claire – the show has already been commissioned for a third series.
(17) Pregnant Franny, whose child can assert the human race's survival; the forgiving and ailing Glen; deaf-mute Nick; mentally challenged Tom Cullen, who will save Stu Redman; Larry Underwood, who starts the novel dreaming of Flagg, and is filled with darkness, but somehow finds the light.
(18) It really caught fire.” The marketing also includes a fake campaign website – where Underwood’s un-nerving gaze is turned towards the viewer when a keyboard cursor runs over his eyes – plus a spoof presidential pardon from the politician on Twitter for those planning to take the day off work to watch the show.
(19) The BBC adaptation of Michael Dobbs’s book only ran for one series but Davies – who came up with many of the devices used in the TV show, such as Underwood’s glances and speeches to camera – said he had expected that Netflix’s Golden Globe-winning version would last longer if it became a hit.
(20) "If this had happened in any country except Japan there would be a domestic consciousness of the problem," Underwood said.