Etymology
Origin of underpart
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These white, fluffy, downlike feathers grow on the lower underpart of the body of the Maribou Stork.
From The Bird Study Book by Thomas Gilbert Pearson
Their general colour was greenish-brown, mottled and spotted with reddish-brown, and yellow; the sides green and black; the underpart yellow, mottled with orange.
From Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
The kitchen seemed full of the presence of the long-dead woman whom Tony was still grieving for in some underpart of his mind.
From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds
Seizing opportunity and larva at the same time, the wasp stood high on its legs and pulled the worm's front end from the ground, exposing the yellowed band of the underpart.
From They Twinkled Like Jewels by Philip José Farmer
The exposition, however, that I have made of the errors and defects of other writers, is only an incident, or underpart, of the scheme of this treatise.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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