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View synonyms for understory
understory
[ uhn-der-stawr-ee, -stohr-ee ]
noun
- the shrubs and plants growing beneath the main canopy of a forest.
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Origin of understory1
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Trees were small in this part of the woods, with a well developed understory thicket of coralberry and sumac.
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An almost continuous canopy of foliage has developed, shading the understory and thinning it by killing shrubs and saplings.
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Purshia tridentata (bitterbrush) is the understory codominant.
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Vegetation was pinyon-juniper woodland with an understory of mixed shrubs.
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A relatively pure understory of Poa fendleriana (muttongrass), is typical of such woodland on the middle parts of the mesas.
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