undergrown
not grown to normal size or height: sickly and undergrown cattle.
having an undergrowth: an undergrown thicket tangled with creeping vines.
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How to use undergrown in a sentence
He would set fire to dry grass—watching the short flames trail along the ground and the grass-smoke rise—but only in certain places where the trees were tall and well-spaced, the brush not undergrown, and the conditions not too dangerous.
Prescribed burns can keep wildfires in check. So why are politicians standing in the way? | Madeline Ostrander/Undark | October 27, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe wretched, undergrown youngsters seen in European circuses give no idea of the real size of this noble beast.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan | Helena Pretrovna BlavatskyAs I recall his personality, he was an undergrown youth of sallow complexion and uncertain age.
Under the Stars and Bars | Walter A. ClarkThe timber being undergrown with laurel through which ran a brook of clear water.
History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry | R. C. RankinIt was kind of a big head, bald big head, looked like Khrushchev, the child—looked like an undergrown Khrushchev.
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All at once Huggins caught sight of an undergrown, misshapen boy scowling from the back of the men and women.
Mountain | Clement Wood
British Dictionary definitions for undergrown
/ (ˈʌndəˌɡrəʊn, ˌʌndəˈɡrəʊn) /
not having the expected height
having undergrowth
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