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understory

[ uhn-der-stawr-ee, -stohr-ee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

First recorded in 1900–05; under- + story ²

Trees were small in this part of the woods, with a well developed understory thicket of coralberry and sumac.

An almost continuous canopy of foliage has developed, shading the understory and thinning it by killing shrubs and saplings.

Purshia tridentata (bitterbrush) is the understory codominant.

Vegetation was pinyon-juniper woodland with an understory of mixed shrubs.

A relatively pure understory of Poa fendleriana (muttongrass), is typical of such woodland on the middle parts of the mesas.

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