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uhn der grohth

  • n  the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest

  • In other words, not a grand plan but a bit of pruning, some careful transplanting and judicious clearing of undergrowth: gardening, not clear-cutting.
  • Other troops could be seen scouring the undergrowth and olive groves on the steep slopes of the valley.
  • They were hidden, their entrances well camouflaged, in the dense undergrowth of remote valleys often littered with unexploded Israeli ordnance.
News & Articles

  • Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle
    First time accepted submitter steve_mark66 writes "Australian archaeologists using remote-sensing technology have uncovered an ancient city in Cambodia that has remained hidden for more than a millennium under dense jungle undergrowth. The discovery of Mahendraparvata, a 1,200-year-old lost city that predates Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex by 350 years, was part of the Hindu ...
    June 16, 2013 - Slashdot
  • Speed Test Devised for Wild Cheetahs
    The cheetah crouches in the undergrowth. When a young antelope strays a little too far from the herd, the cheetah explodes out of the bush -- and, with a burst of speed unrivalled in the natural world, brings down its next meal. [More]
    June 13, 2013 - Scientific American
Quotes

  • Robert Frost in Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
    Frost wrote: "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth."
  • Robert Pinsky in Boston Globe (registration)
    In "The Forgetting," Pinsky begins with the acknowledgment that "The forgetting I notice most as I get older is really a form of memory:/ The undergrowth of things unknown to you young, that I have forgotten."

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