undergrowth
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.