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# underside

«underside» in Mova's school dictionary: **the bottom side or surface of something, the part facing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (the underside, undersides)

### meaning for a pupil

The underside is the bottom side or surface of something, the part facing down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils look at «the underside of a leaf» (where the stomata and often insects are), «the underside of a rock» (where minibeasts hide), or «the underside of a mushroom» (gills). In everyday life, the underside of a table, car or boat. Phrases: «on the underside», «the underside of».

### examples

- Turn the leaf over to look at its underside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x1)
- Woodlice live on the underside of logs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x2)
- The underside of the mushroom has gills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x3)
- Ladybirds lay eggs on the underside of leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x4)
- The price was on the underside of the box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x5)
- The boat's underside was covered in barnacles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x6)
- A starfish's underside has tiny tube feet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/#x7)

### note

Plural: undersides. One word. Opposite: top, upper side. Also: «underneath», «bottom». Gently put rocks back the way they were after looking underneath.

### In the corpora

- [Owl butterflies have large eye spots on the underside of their wings that may startle birds or draw their pecks away from the body.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/98-the-butterfly-house/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «underside» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/underside/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.