overstory
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of overstory
1480–90, for an earlier sense; 1955–60 for current sense; over- + story 2
Example Sentences
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These practices over time yielded "mosaics" of forests made up of diverse patches of trees varying in age, density, and overstory and understory composition.
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
But they acknowledged the stand was beginning to develop some characteristics of mature forest — larger overstory and shade-tolerant understory.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2023
The narrative braid, meanwhile — the overstory — grows more tangled.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2022
On many parts of tribal land, most of the trees in the overstory survived.
From Salon • Nov. 7, 2021
In the hybrid test plots, the seedlings were planted under forest growth and the overstory trees were girdled; the seedlings were randomized in these plots, with spacing of 10 by 10 feet.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. August 31 and September 1, 1953 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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