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underwood

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest [syn: underbrush , undergrowth ]

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 319 Housing Units (2000): 154 Land area (2000): 0.424047 sq. miles (1.098277 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.424047 sq. miles (1.098277 sq. km) FIPS code: 66172 Located within: Minnesota ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Underwood is a surname of English topographic origin.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Underwood \Un"der*wood`\, n. Small trees and bushes that grow among large trees; coppice; underbrush; -- formerly used in the plural. Shrubs and underwoods look well enough while they grow within the shade of oaks and cedars. --Addison.

Usage examples of underwood.

Larry Underwood woke up near the big white house in eastern New Hampshire, Trashy crossed the Missouri north of Council Bluffs and entered Nebraska.

For some distance from Beauvais, from Senlis, from Soissons, from Laon, they had caused the fields to lie fallow, and here and there shrubs and underwood were springing up over land once cultivated.

Weller, Chuck Errig, Lisa Congelosi, Rebeccah Fitting, David Phethean, Ron Schoop, and David Underwood.

Underwood, who really wanted to begin his professional life as something better than a telemarketer, still had questions.

Among the Yabim the labour of clearing a patch for cultivation is performed by all the men of a village in common, but when the great trees have fallen with a crash to the ground, and the trunks, branches, foliage and underwood have been burnt, with a roar of flames and a crackling like a rolling fire of musketry, each family appropriates a portion of the clearing for its own use and marks off its boundaries with sticks.

About half past ten Reggie walked out of his laboratory to the room in which Underwood sat waiting.

Then Reggie got out of the train and whispered to Underwood, and Underwood slid away and vanished.

The fawns fed away down the slope and presently into one of the broad green open paths or drives, where the underwood on each side is lined with bramble and with trailing white rose, which loves to cling to bushes scarcely higher than itself.

But presently, chancing to look aside, he beheld a head low down amid the underwood, a head huge and hairy with small, fierce eyes that watched him right bodefully, and a great mouth that grinned evilly.

Great old oaks, elms, and basswoods grew tall and spread wide over a rich damp underwood of lichen, dead leaves, loam, and ferns.

Underwood, I know she's dirt poor and she's just marrying me for my money but that's a laugh because I don't have any worth talking about anyway.

Yes, he had really believed everyone at Tony's Feed Bag was a dipstick but him, the sainted, soon- to-succeed (and you better believe it) Larry Underwood.

He rolled the story out of the big Underwood office machine, peeled off the carbons one by one and put them in their stacks, and set the original on top of the typewriter to come back to later.

The extraction and refining operation is being supervised by Quentin Underwood, the secretary of the interior and would-be oil tycoon.

An empty twenty-by-twenty studio apartment with a body-damaged sofa, a bookcase with fourteen books in it and lots of waiting space, an easy chair bought on the cheap from Goodwill Industries, a Sears, Roebuck unpainted pinewood desk with an unoiled 1934 Underwood Standard typewriter on it, as big as a player piano and as loud as wooden clogs on a carpetless floor.