From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From under- + growth. Cognate with West Frisian ûndergroei (“undergrowth”).
undergrowth (usually uncountable, plural undergrowths)
- The plants in a forest which only reach a relatively low height (such as shrubs and bushes).
tangled undergrowth
clear the undergrowth
The hikers pushed through thick undergrowth.
The forest floor was covered with dense undergrowth.
plants which only reach a low height
- Bulgarian: горски храсти m pl (gorski hrasti)
- Catalan: sotabosc (ca) m, malesa (ca) f
- Chichewa: thengo
- Chinese: guànmùcóng (zh)
- Czech: podrost (cs)
- Dutch: ondergroei (nl) m, kreupelhout (nl) n
- Finnish: aluskasvillisuus (fi)
- French: broussailles (fr) f, sous-bois (fr) m, maquis (fr) m
- Galician: sotobosque, mato
- German: Unterholz (de) n, Unterwuchs m
- Greek:
- Ancient: ῥώψ f (rhṓps)
- Hungarian: aljnövényzet (hu)
- Indonesian: belukar (id)
- Italian: sottobosco (it) m
- Japanese: 下生え (したばえ, shitabae)
- Latin: rāmālia n pl
- Maori: hūru, ururua, hururua, heu, heuheu
- Polish: podszyt (pl) m, podszycie n
- Portuguese: sub-bosque m
- Romanian: tufăriș (ro) n, tufiș (ro) n, desiș (ro) n, subarboret (ro) n
- Russian: подлесок (ru) (podlesok), подлесье (ru) (podlesʹje)
- Serbo-Croatian: podrast m
- Spanish: sotobosque (es) m
- Thai: พง (th) (pong)
- Turkish: diri örtü (tr)
- Welsh: prysgwydd pl, isdyfiant m
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