undergrowth
The bushes and plants that grow thickly under trees.
undergrowth in a sentence
- Something rustled in the undergrowth, and we froze on the forest path.
- The gardener cleared the undergrowth, a tangle of bushes growing thickly beneath the apple trees.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to undergrowth?
- Ameadow
- Blawn
- Cbushes
- Dclearing
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C: bushes. The other three mean the opposite of undergrowth.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to undergrowth?
- Abushes
- Bscrub
- Cclearing
- Dshrubs
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C: clearing. The other three mean nearly the same as undergrowth.
Words that mean something similar
bushes, shrubs, scrub
Words that mean the opposite
clearing, meadow, lawn
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- verge: The edge of something, or the moment just before something happens.
- void: A completely empty space.
- yonder: Over there, some distance away.
- adjacent: Right next to something else.
- ajar: Slightly open.
- aroma: A pleasant smell.
- austere: Very plain and strict, without comfort or decoration.
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