overstory
Americannoun
plural
overstoriesEtymology
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
Travel 100 feet deeper and the overstory begins to filter sunlight as deciduous trees are replaced with century-old cedars, hemlocks and Douglas firs.
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
This species is found in thickets of Gambel oak and in areas with an overstory of mixed shrubs only when a living pinyon-juniper canopy is present, or when a woodland adjoins these areas.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.
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